What are the first quadrillion digits of pi?

Answer 1

Note:

An ocean of numbers was submitted as a response to your question,

perhaps in good faith by a well-meaning contributor. Sadly, however, it lists only

the first 241,868 digits of PI . . . something like 0.0000000242 percent of the

quadrillion you asked for.

There are a few basic reasons why the entire answer can't be given:

-- PI has been computed to only a few trillion decimal places ... only about 1/2 percent

of the answer you're looking for.

-- If the value of PI to a quadrillion places DID exist, and the person who decided to

put it here could type 10 digits every second and never stop until he finished, it would

take him about 3.17 million years to type the full quadrillion digits at that rate.

-- The answer would then occupy roughly 1,000 TB (1 million Gigabytes) in the

Answers.com servers. All of MY answers, as well as those written by a great

number of far more active contributors than I, would have to be flushed

in order to make room for this one whimsical and useless contribution.