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The Mountains of Pi (1992)

1 points| samfisher83 | 3 years ago |newyorker.com

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samfisher83|3 years ago

This is an article about Chudnovsky brothers building a homemade super computer to compute pi. It is crazy how our phones are 1500 times more powerful than their supercomputer. It is also crazy how they were able build a homemade super computer in the early 90s with prices of components and less availability of computing.