In 2009 in South Africa, a new sport was invented – played on a circular court around a central circular ball strike area – called “Pi Ball”. It’s comparable to beach volleyball, but where two players on a team are separated by a net, pi-ball players instead stand diametrically opposite one another within the confines of a circular court. Learn how to play Pi Ball & watch videos of people playing Pi Ball at PiBall.com.
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New Pi Calculation Record Set
On December 31st, 2009, Fabrice Bellard set a new world record by calculating pi to an amazing 2.7 trillion digits. This is an increase of approximately 120 billion digits over the previous record, set back in August 2009.
Maybe more amazing than the 5% increase is the fact that this feat was accomplished with standard desktop pc hardware, including an Intel Core i7 CPU@2.93ghz, 6gb of ram, and a whopping 7.5 terabytes of storage.
In case you were wondering, the calculations (including verifications) took 131 days.
