Fabrice Bellard, a computer scientist from Somwhere, Does it really matter, recently calculated pi to a staggering 2.7 trillion digits. That’s a lot of digits! I don’t even have that many in my cell phone and I entered every number in the phonebook (I’m super popular).

Fabrice Bellard used a desktop computer to perform the calculation, taking a total of 131 days to complete and check the result.

This version of pi takes over a terabyte of hard disk space to store.

Previous records were established using supercomputers, but Mr Bellard claims his method is 20 times more efficient.

Well congratulations, Fabrice.

Pi calculated to ‘record number’ of digits [BBC News]

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