03-14-2019, 06:46 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524760
The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion.
Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with the help of the company's cloud computing service.
Pi is the number you get when you divide a circle's circumference by its diameter.
The first digits, 3.14, are well known but the number is infinitely long.
The calculation required 170TB of data (for comparison, 200,000 music tracks take up 1TB) and took 25 virtual machines 121 days to complete.
Well, I guess that's one way to get a world record - although, I doubt anyone will ever find a use for this. Most of the time, we don't need anything more precise than 3.14159 (heck, just 3.14 is usually good enough).
Anyway, happy Pi Day !
The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion.
Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with the help of the company's cloud computing service.
Pi is the number you get when you divide a circle's circumference by its diameter.
The first digits, 3.14, are well known but the number is infinitely long.
The calculation required 170TB of data (for comparison, 200,000 music tracks take up 1TB) and took 25 virtual machines 121 days to complete.
Well, I guess that's one way to get a world record - although, I doubt anyone will ever find a use for this. Most of the time, we don't need anything more precise than 3.14159 (heck, just 3.14 is usually good enough).
Anyway, happy Pi Day !
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