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problem with pi

Asked by Jo Gerb

after computing pi with "pi 1234567" i got these 1234567 decimals of pi. but when i copy them wit strg a , right click and copy and then paste them into gedit/ leafpad/ abiword , theres only one huge line where all these numbers fade into each other, it looks like one big bar. what can i do? or , wher should i post screenshots?

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Ilya Barygin (randomaction) said : 		#1

Apparently the editors can't cope with a line worth 1.2Mb. Use this to get a pretty file:

pi 1234567 | fold >pi.txt

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