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Visualizing pi (4 million decimal points worth of it, at least)

Visualizing pi (4 million decimal points worth of it, at least)

Pi is an irrational number and the project conducted by TWO-N might seem like an irrational project, but it yielded a mind-blowing visualization. “We are representing 4 million digits at a glance,” TWO-N designer Hermann Zschiegner said to Mashable. “It would take an average person roughly three weeks to read out the numbers, but it only takes a second to look at our graphic.” According to the team, “On October 17, 2011, Shigeru Kondo concluded 371 days of computer 10,000,000,000,000 decimal places of pi. Roughly 44 TB of disk was needed to perform the computation, and 7.6 TB of disk was…

But No Star Wars Reference? I

But No Star Wars Reference? I'm Not Impressed.

As a purveyor of offbeat geekery, I am absolutely obligated to show you this. Here’s a girl balancing 15 books on her head while reciting pi to the 100th digit and solving a Rubik’s Cube. Yep. That is all. …

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