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- Can you create an order from a numbered menu that is always comprehensible to the server?
- When someone is behind you as you open a door, what is the polite distance to wait for them?
- And, the cards are on the table.
You can find more about Emma Haruka Iwao's record breaking Pi calculation here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-100-trillion-digits-of-pi-on-google-cloud
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