"As predicted, the method successfully reproduces the first sequence of decimal digits, demonstrating that the largest available dataset of π digits can be used to recover π≈3.141593 through Monte Carlo simulation."
https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06438v1
I don't know if this is intended as satire, but the fact that you can - starting with only the first 314 trillion digits of Pi, 384 CPU cores, 1.5 TB RAM, and 2.5 PB of disk - calculate the first 7 digits of Pi feels extremely on brand for modern computing.
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