Is the quadrillionth digit of Pi a 6?
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Resolves once the answer is publicly known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_computation_of_%CF%80 Mar 9,

This is referring to base 10, and counting starts after the decimal point. (e.g. "1" is the first digit, "4" is the second, etc.)

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Interestingly, it might not be published even when computed.

If you want to store quadrillion digits in ASCII text (for example to publish on a website), it'll take about a petabyte of storage, so an arbitrary digit might not be publicly available.

There is a method to calculate a digit of pi without having to calculate all the preceding digits... https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Digit-ExtractionAlgorithm.html

So someone just has to calculate it...

@OliverMattos that's in base 16 though. I am assuming this market is asking in base 10.

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@mariopasquato Yes, base 10.

How do you count digits? Is the second digit a 4? Or is it the third digit that's a 4?

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Starts after the decimal point, so the second digit is a 4.

@PatrickDelaney In base 10. :P
You didn't specify a base for the number system.

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