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The Science Channel documentary "Brainman" profiled a man from england that recited pi continually for over 2 hours ... amazing and clearly the record. I'm sure a computer could beat him - but, just thought you might find that interesting....amazing!
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UPDATE: Oops, Xprofessor is entirely correct. I mistakenly looked at the wrong date on the NY times story I found. The story is actually from March 8th, 1987. Sorry for the woefully out of date info. Xprofessor's 1,241,100,000,000 decimals is correct. Thanks for setting me straight. Original Answer: Apparently some Japanese scientist recently took it 4 times farther than the previous record. 134 million decimal places. If that isn't far enough for you, try hijacking a botnet and start calculating I guess... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DB143FF93BA35750C0A961948260 http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/
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The current record is 1,241,100,000,000 decimals, set by Yasumasa Kanada and team in 2002. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Computation_in_the_computer_age That's more than one trillion digits!
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