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World Service,2 mins

How I broke the pi record

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Emma Haruka Iwao is a Japanese software engineer who recently smashed the pi record, by calculating the number to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits. Emma tells Yassmin Abdel-Magied that she achieved this despite not being very good at mathematics! Image: Emma Haruka Iwao Credit: Google

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