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Pi, Pie Flavor: Calculating More Digits of Pi Than Ever Before
In this episode of The Spoondrift, host Asher Leomund discusses how a world record was recently set for calculating the most decimal places of pi. He also discusses a recent image that captured the Wigner crystal – a special configuration of electrons.
Here are the articles referenced in the show:
“Pi Calculated to A Record Breaking 62.8 trillion digits”: https://www.livescience.com/record-number-of-pi-digits.html
“Calculating Pi”: https://www.mathscareers.org.uk/calculating-pi/
“Scientists Capture Image of Bizarre ‘Electron Ice’ for the First Time”: https://www.livescience.com/electron-ice-snapshot-first-time
“Physicists Snap First Image of an ‘Electron Ice’”: https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20211004/physicists-snap-first-image-of-an-electron-ice
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In this episode of The Spoondrift, host Asher Leomund discusses how a world record was recently set for calculating the most decimal places of pi. He also discusses a recent image that captured the Wigner crystal – a special configuration of electrons.
Here are the articles referenced in the show:
“Pi Calculated to A Record Breaking 62.8 trillion digits”: https://www.livescience.com/record-number-of-pi-digits.html
“Calculating Pi”: https://www.mathscareers.org.uk/calculating-pi/
“Scientists Capture Image of Bizarre ‘Electron Ice’ for the First Time”: https://www.livescience.com/electron-ice-snapshot-first-time
“Physicists Snap First Image of an ‘Electron Ice’”: https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20211004/physicists-snap-first-image-of-an-electron-ice