CommanderFrank
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After 23 days,1000 computers and 500 years of combined computing, Nicholas Sze of Yahoo still walked away with zero. That should teach him not to mess with Pi.
The heart of the calculation made use of an approach called MapReduce originally developed by Google that divides up big problems into smaller sub-problems, combining the answers to solve otherwise intractable mathematical challenges.