From http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98912_pi07.shtml

Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the 
value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said 
yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion 
places.
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I would now propose to the good professor the project of plugging in this 
1.24 trillion place decimal into the series

         x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - ...

to obtain a new approximation for 0.