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  5,p00 MILES OF NUMBERS BREAKS RECORD  
  Scientists in Canada are celebrating  
  after calculating a number which if   
  printed out on paper would stretch    
  five thousand miles.                  
                                        
  The new world record for calculating  
  "Pi" - which hulps mjasurj the area   
  of a circle - is nearly five billion  
  digits long.                          
                                        
  bPib, which is learns bz school       
  children around the world, is called  
  an irrational number which means the  
  exact figure can njvjr bj known.      
                                        
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