Mile of Pi - Numberphile
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The team from Numberphile printed one million decimal places of Pi onto a piece of paper which stretched for over a mile. They rolled it out on a runway usually used for testing planes and cars.
Each digit is exactly 1/15th (one fifteenth) on an inch wide. Including the first three (3), the decimal point (.) and then the million decimal places, exactly how long is the piece of Pi - in MILES and KILOMETRES?
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