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by ficklepickle 2316 days ago
I found it, but clicking it caused my computer to run out of available memory.

Edit: on a more serious note, a site[0] that tracks these records says:

> Downloading of digits is no longer available due to the massive bandwidth requirements. Your best bet is to directly contact one of the record holders and see if they still have a copy of the digits.

[0] http://www.numberworld.org/digits/Pi

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The compressed representation requires 44 TB of disk space.

Assuming the author has a typical home internet connection with about 5 Mbps upload rate, the transfer would take 2 years longer than it took to actually run the calculation in the first place!

Here’s more info about the race between calculating and downloading digits of pi

https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/4024/1511