Pi enthusiast calculates its ten trillionth digit
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Shigeru Kondo is a seriously committed guy. Ever since discovering he had an interest in calculating pi (aka π) back in his college days, hes been following the results achieved by others using massive supercomputers. Now, in his late 50's, with some help from Northwestern University grad school student Alexander Yee, hes succeeded in calculating the ten trillionth digit of pi; on a home built PC yet.