The team says it was an invaluable exercise in testing their computer systems and their own skills, showing that they were ready to handle huge amounts of data in research and development applications. There was more behind the challenge than just bragging rights, though. All up, it took the team 108 days and nine hours to make the calculation. It took two AMD CPUs with 32 cores each, 1 TB of RAM, and a massive 510 TB of storage space. Of course, that’s a lot of numbers to crunch, and the researchers had to make use of a pretty hardcore hardware setup. We would like to demonstrate that Pi can be efficiently calculated to 62.8 trillion decimal places with limited hardware, personnel and budgetary. On Thursday, Google revealed developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao, with the help of the tech giants cloud platform, calculated Pi to 31.4 trillion decimal places, beating the previous record by nearly 9 trillion digits. That’s a fair leap over the current record of 50 trillion, set by Timothy Mullican in January 2020, and double the previous record of 31.4 trillion set by Google in 2019. Just in time for Pi Day, a new world record has been set for calculating the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter.
Now, researchers from the University of Applied Sciences in Graubünden, Switzerland, have calculated Pi more accurately than ever before – 62.8 trillion digits. These decimal places never end, never form a repeating pattern, and their distribution appears to be truly random, making the number useful (besides its importance to geometry) as a benchmarking tool in computing. Pi, of course, defines the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle, coming out to 3.1415926535 and so on, ad infinitum. Pi, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is an irrational number beginning with 3.14, and an infinite number of digits following the decimal point. It took three and a half months and a data center’s worth of computer equipment, but the researchers have calculated Pi to a staggering 62.8 trillion digits. Swiss scientists have calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record of 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer. Most of us can recall Pi to four or five digits, thanks to high school math, but now a team of Swiss scientists has broken the world record for calculating the mathematical constant.
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