In a computer, everything is represented as strings of zeroes and ones. So as one might imagine, calculating the sixty-trillionth binary digit of a number is quite a feat.

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Researchers out of the University of Innsbruck have fabricated a quantum computer that leverages a complex quantum digit system as opposed to the traditional qubits. For those who may not know how ...

His computer program represents pi in binary notation, and calculated the 2 quadrillionth (2 x 10 15) binary digit, or bit, of pi. It is twice as distant as the previous record, which found a ...