Google helps developer break record by calculating 100 trillion digits of the number Pi

The computer science and programming developer Emma Haruka Iwako has broken a record by calculating up to 100 trillion digits of the number Pi for which she has used technology of google cloudd.

The number Pi is the most famous mathematical constant in history, with infinite decimal places that are used in mathematics or physics among many other disciplines, and its beginning is the best known: 3.1415.

The Google programming developer had already managed to calculate 31.4 billion digits of Pi in 2019 and in 2021 Swiss scientists calculated a similar figure, placing the total at 62.8 billion decimal places.

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this time Haruka has broken that mark again by calculating 100 trillion digits of Pi and, of them, the last one is a number zero.

The programming developer used various cloud computing technologies from Google for this challenge and it took 157 daysreports the company on its blog.

The underlying technology that has made it possible is Compute Enginea secure computing service from Google Cloud, and various recent enhancements such as 100 Gbps egress bandwidth and Balanced Persistent Disks as storage.

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Haruka remembers that breaking Pi’s record was her childhood dream, which she has already done twice, and that there is no end to this transcendental number, which means that it cannot be written as a finite polynomial.

This new mark of 100 trillion decimal places “shows, once again, how far computers have come,” he says, and as with other advances in this sector in the past, we could still “see another fundamental change that keeps the impulse”, so Haruka assures: “I will continue counting”.

Source: Elcomercio

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