[mlocher]

I wonder how much stimulus money is being spent to take us to 1,000,000 characters. (Cool graph though)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

That’s number of digits memorized by a human.

von Neumann calculated pi to over 2000 digits using ENIAC in 1949. The million mark was hit in 1973, the billion digit mark in 1989. The current mark in 2.7 trillion digits. Don’t tell Obama what comes after a trillion.