Zen Lake – 50B-digit π computation on modest hardware

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I computed 50 billion digits of π using y-cruncher on a 10-year-old PC. The run took ~22 hours and used a reproducible setup I call Zen Lake Architecture. It isolates swap, binaries, and output for stability, and the README is minimalist and poetic. The goal is to democratize high-precision computation and make trillion-digit π runs accessible to students and researchers worldwide. GitHub repo includes English and Japanese README files, benchmark logs, and MIT License. Feedback and reproducibility reports are welcome. “The lake where π swims is made of 64KB grains.”

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