Scientsts calculate pi to 10 trillion digits

I agree completely with you, Draconis. Why don't they do something more creative with their time? Or are they too smart?!

I'm not a pi enthusiast, does pi ever start showing a pattern, or is it complete randomness even up to ten trillion digits?

randomness

This seems like quite a massive waste of time and effort. What exactly are we going to really get out of this? if the ten trillionth digit through the ten trillionth and tenth digit end up being 3.14 ten trillion digits 12345678910.... Would that change anything? Focus on something that will make a difference in the world...

I totally agree with what everyone's been saying, there's really no benefit to the world with this discovery, I'm not going to be using a trillion digits to help me with my division.

this is what nerds do when they're bored.

What's with the negativity? It's a couple of guys doing something pointless but awesome. Far more computer power and time is "wasted" on video games or watching cats play the piano on YouTube. Lighten up.

What about the square root of two and three? They forgot those.

PI is used in some cryptography cyphers (or parts of PI), so, it's not a complete waste. Also, if i'm not mistaken, isn't it possible for, say, on the 10 trillion and 1st digit Pi might just start repeating itself. A finding like that would have huge implications.

10 months and drying laundry in the room to make this calculation? Really?