Re:World record? (Score 1)

A world record??? LOL! Maybe for their lame implementation! Others are faster: http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/pi. Try for yourself, using a Debian box:
$ apt-get install pi
$ time pi 1000000 > /tmp/pi

real 0m9.188s
user 0m9.048s
sys 0m0.141s
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 250
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2405.538
cache size : 1024 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4718.59
TLB size : 1088 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp