Mathematical Digest

Short Summaries of Articles about Mathematics
in the Popular Press

"An enormous chunk of pi," by Ivars Peterson. Science News, 9 August 1997, page 92.

This brief article discusses the latest work on computation of the number pi, which has an infinitely long, nonrepeating decimal expansion. Researchers in Japan have now computed pi out to 51.5 billion digits.

--- Allyn Jackson

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