In 2019, a Google cloud computing system calculated the constant's value to more than 31 trillion decimal places, and in 2020, Timothy Mullican of Huntsville, Alabama, founder of a nonprofit called North Alabama Charitable Computing, calculated 50 trillion decimal places, using his personal computer.
In August 2021 researchers from the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Switzerland announced that they had broken the record for the most accurate value of pi by more than 12 trillion decimal places, using a computer at the Competence Center for Data Analysis, Visualization and Simulation (DAViS)
On August 5, 2021 they announced
"The University of Applied Sciences Graubünden is approaching the goal of breaking the two-year-old world record for calculating the number Pi. An important milestone was reached yesterday with the calculation of Pi to 62.8 trillion decimal places in hexadecimal notation. The final result is expected in about two weeks."
https://www.fhgr.ch/themenschwerpunkte/angewandte-zukunftstechnologien/davis-zentrum/
PS
: Knowing more
digits of pi isn't particularly important for mathematics. But calculating the value of pi to high precision has
long been used as a benchmark to test the processing power of computers.
To answer your query
- The DAViS researchers used a well-known algorithm called Chudnovsky’s formula and it required
316 terabytes of RAM.
what's the point of searching for and end of pi? what difference does it make? I simply don't understand
Knowing more
digits of pi isn't particularly important for mathematics. But calculating the value of pi to high precision has
long been used as a benchmark to test the processing power of computers.
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