Today, we use computers to do this calculation, which helps us learn how much faster they’ve become. Google Cloud believes it just set a new world record by calculating the mathematical constant pi to 100 trillion digits, beating the previous record of 62.8. In the past, people would manually - meaning without calculators or computers - determine the digits of pi. That’s what motivated Iwao’s team to do the calculation to an accuracy of 31.4 trillion digits (pi times 10 trillion) back in 2019. Computer scientist Donald Knuth wrote "human progress in calculation has traditionally been measured by the number of decimal digits of π" in his book “The Art of Computer Programming” ( Dr. The well-known approximation 3.14 is believed to have been found by Archimedes around the year 250 BCE. Since that time, the benchmark has been surpassed multiple times most recently, academics from a university in Switzerland calculated Pi to be 82.8 trillion. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The results were in and it was a new record: We’d calculated the most digits of π ever - 100 trillion to be exact.Ĭalculating π - or finding as many digits of it as possible - is a project that mathematicians, scientists and engineers around the world have worked on for thousands of years, myself included. In that run, it calculated a 31.4 trillion-digit slice of Pi in 111.8 days using 25 of the compute nodes of the time (a total of 96 vCPUs with 1.4TB of RAM). Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubnden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pia staggering 62.8 trillion figures. It was finally time - I was going to be the first and only person to ever see the number. A few months ago, on an average Tuesday morning in March, I sat down with my coffee to check on the program that had been running a calculation from my home office for 157 days. The 100-trillionth decimal place of π (pi) is 0. Swiss scientists made use of a powerful computer for 108 days to calculate pi The previous world record was set in the US at 50 trillion digits early in 2020.
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