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If anyone's looking for a great long-form article about calculating digits of Pi from the good ol' days, this 1992 New Yorker profile of the Chudnovsky brothers
by CodeIsTheEnd 4y ago
If anyone's looking for a great long-form article about calculating digits of Pi from the good ol' days, this 1992 New Yorker profile of the Chudnovsky brothers (creators of algorithm used by Google here!) is fantastic:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-...
- jason_s 4y agoDammit I was going to post this, but you beat me to it!
- foodstances 4y agoReading that, it's hard not to see the parallels to Darren Aronofsky's movie Pi. Building a supercomputer in an apartment to find patterns in Pi that have some higher meaning, the computer constantly breaking, etc.