Here's what it looks like if you print out a million digits of pi on a single line

Here's what it looks like if you print out a million digits of pi on a single line
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Turns out a million is huge. Printed out in quite small font, one million digits in a single row still takes over a mile of paper. It's so long that it takes an airplane runway to unroll the thing:

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.