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by LeifCarrotson 2316 days ago
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!

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

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