Google bakes world's largest pi

Tom Allen
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Google developer Emma Iwao has claimed a Guiness World Record for calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits using Google Cloud

Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which starts as 3.1415 and just keeps going, has many applications. Engineers use it to measure the circular velocity of things like ...

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