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Comments by "David Terr" (@dcterr1) on "The Discovery That Transformed Pi" video.
I believe pi is now known to about 100 trillion decimal places, which is far more than we'll probably ever need to know. Nevertheless, it's fascinating to know that this can be done!
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Interestingly, although Newton derived a vastly superior method for computing pi, he never broke Von Ceulen's record computation of 35 digits.
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The history of calculating pi is quite fascinating! To the best of my knowledge, Ramanujan came up with the fastest converging formula for pi, which is an infinite sum in which each term adds about 15 digits of precision!
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