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"Pi by the billions," by Ivars Peterson. Science News, 16 October 1999, page 255.

A group lead by Yasumasa Kanada at the University of Tokyo Information Technology Center has found more digits of the number pi than ever before. The 206,158,430,000th decimal digit of pi (not counting the initial digit 3) is 4. Kanada is now checking the results to identify any interesting patterns among the newly-discovered digits.

--- Benjamin Stein

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