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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: PI
Message-ID: <4419:Dec1205:00:1090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 05:00:10 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.160047.1@bunyip.enet.dec.com> quodling@bunyip.enet.dec.com writes:
> In article <7063@aspect.UUCP>, dave@aspect.UUCP (Dave Corcoran) writes:
> > Does anyone know to how many places has PI been calculated?
  [ ... ]
> Actually, nothing significant has happened for a few years...

Actually, the Chudnovskys recently jumped into the pi game with a
Ramanujan-type formula, and beat Kanada in the race to 10^9 digits.
That's rather significant to anyone who knows anything about the field.

---Dan