Truly incredible news, which I just saw on Slashdot, and which I actually never expected to read.
I especially love this part:
"After decades of believing that Pi was an irrational number, filled with an infinite set of non-repeating digits to the right of the decimal," stated Dr Will Magnus, Mathematician-emeritus at MIT, "we were frankly quite shocked to find that it just had a really, really, really long - albeit rational! - value. Imagine our surprise at discovering that seven billion, two hundred and nineteen million, thirty-five thousand, eight hundred and forty-one digits in... it just ends! And with a 0, no less! That was perhaps the biggest shock of all!"
What a wacky start for the month of April!
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Are we sure it's just not related to today's date?
What a wacky start and clue indeed.
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