Sometime back, I noticed a widely circulated meme on Pi on Internet: That meme reads: -

"PI IS AN INFINITE, NON-REPEATING DECIMAL - MEANING THAT EVERY POSSIBLE NUMBER COMBINATION EXISTS SOMEWHERE IN PI. CONVERTED INTO ASCII TEXT, SOMEWHERE IN THAT INFINITE STRING OF DIGITS IS THE NAME OF EVERY PERSON YOU WILL EVER LOVE, THE DATE, TIME AND THE MANNER OF YOUR DEATH, AND THE ANSWER TO ALL THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF UNIVERSE."

I found this rather intriguing and it made me curious enough to note it down. Of course, Pi is an infinite and non repeating decimal. As on 2011, the value of Pi has been calculated to, hold your breath, up to 10 trillion digits (that is 10,000,000,000,050 digits). Do check here for detailed account of this endeavor.  Ten trillion digits because, well, it took one year, some restarts, numerous hardware failures. The thing is, Pi will always have a last laugh over our computational capabilities.

As such, this meme, however interesting and sensational, is useless. If you really think about it, you will know this exercise is futile and meaningless. But story of Pi, on the other hand, is enormously deep and mysteriously beautiful.