These events are not entirely unrelated: Incandela told CNN last year that the number pi comes up in Large Hadron Collider calculations.

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While no one would mistake any one Raspberry Pi for a powerhouse, the sheer number of networked devices gives the design both some computing grunt and 1TB worth of storage in SD cards.

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Whether it's the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi, Intel's NUC, or any number of similar products.

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