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The advent of digital computers in the 20th century led to an increased rate of new \u03c0 calculation records. John von Neumann et al. used ENIAC to compute 2037 digits of \u03c0 in 1949, a calculation that took 70 hours.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That 0.000024 is the time in seconds it took Mathematica 6 For Students to calculate 2,037 digits of Pi on a MacBook with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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