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on Oct 23, 2011
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Homemade computer calculates pi to 10 trillion dig...
It's entirely for supercomputer bragging rights. Putting up a new record for pi gets attention by virtue of how much computational time it would take.
To think, if he had used this for bitcoin mining instead, he could be a hundredaire.
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To think, if he had used this for bitcoin mining instead, he could be a hundredaire.