Alexander J. Yee, who answered the question is a student who calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits:
http://www.geekosystem.com/pi-five-trillion-digits-alexander...The main challenge for a computation of such a size, is that both software and hardware are pushed beyond their limits. For such a long computation and with so much hardware, failure is not just a probability. It is a given.
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Alexander J. Yee, who answered the question is a student who calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits:
http://www.geekosystem.com/pi-five-trillion-digits-alexander... The main challenge for a computation of such a size, is that both software and hardware are pushed beyond their limits. For such a long computation and with so much hardware, failure is not just a probability. It is a given.