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Re:Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record by LeifCarrotson on Monday February 17, 2020 @12:16PM (#22349066)
The compressed representation requires 44 TB of disk space.

Assuming the author has a typical home internet connection with about 5 Mbps upload rate, the transfer would take 2 years longer than it took to actually run the calculation in the first place!

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Re:Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record by philshem on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:45PM (#22350564)
Here’s more info about the race between calculating and downloading digits of pi

https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/4024/1511

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