Computer scientist Yasumasa Kanada and his coworkers at the University of Tokyo Information Technology Center have now succeeded in computing 1,241,100,000,000 decimal digits of pi, smashing their own previous world record of 206,158,430,000 digits, set in 1999. (sciencenews.org)
That's 0.1 seconds slower than the official result but still good enough to squeak past Bolt's previous world record time of 9.69 seconds, which he had set at the Beijing Olympics the year before. (sciencemag.org)
Now even though the Sultan boasts an estimated personal wealth of more than $ 17 billion, and had been receiving haircuts from Mr. Modestou for nearly two decades, the total cost served to shatter the previous world record for the world's most expensive trim. (businessinsider.com)