And later, after the first ever computational formula for pi was only discovered after computers were invented, feeding computers with calculus, mathematicians were able to calculate far beyond thousands of digits, to millions, billions, and even trillions. Motherboard adds: Researchers in Switzerland broke the world record for the most accurate value of pi over the weekend, the team announced on Monday. In mid-20th century, mathematicians managed to reach pi's first thousand digits. Kondo's wife, Yukiko, complains that computers use a lot of energy on a three-month project and push electricity up to 236 dollars a month. OneHundredAndTen writes: Pi is now known to 62.8 trillion decimal digits.

And Swiss scientists and a supercomputer recently calculated. Professor Kondo intends to try to calculate the value of Pi to 10 trillion digits but due to the limitations of the computer, it cannot be completed. It's 3.1415926535, and it goes on forever. Professor Kondo was also forced to remove the computer case and open the cooling fan (worth about $ 17,750 and the machine has a 32 terabyte hard disk) many times because his indoor temperature is up to 40 degrees Celsius in hot summer. Now, researchers from the University of Applied Sciences in Graubnden, Switzerland, have calculated Pi more accurately than ever before 62.8 trillion digits. On Pi Day of this year, Emma Haruka Iwao calculated pi to 31 trillion digits, dwarfing the previous record of 22 trillion digits. In 2021, scientists at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (opens in new tab) brought the total up to 62.8 trillion digits using two AMD Epyc 32-core processors and 1TB of RAM. Thankfully, the work is saved when plugging in an emergency power source for 10 minutes. In August 2009, a Japanese supercomputer called the T2K Open Supercomputer more than doubled the previous record by calculating to roughly 2.6 trillion digits. The attempt was led by DAViS (Centre for Data Analytics. The record-breaking value counts 62,831,853,071,796 digits, as confirmed by project leader Thomas Keller and his team on 19 August 2021, adding 12.8 billion new digits to pi. This elaborate calculation was ineffective because once his daughter disconnected her computer to plug in a hair dryer. Using a high-performance computer, a team of Swiss researchers have calculated a new most accurate value of pi. The company calculated 31.4 trillion digits of pi in 2019 and that record was broken by scientists at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in 2021, but Google Cloud decided it was time to retake the throne. Professor Shigeru Kondo calculated the Pi number of 5 trillion digits (Photo: Kyodo) This is the second time Google Cloud has set the record for calculating numbers of pi. last year.Īccording to Kyodo News Agency, Professor Kondo calculated the circumference of the circle with its diameter (usually shortened to 3.14) for 90 days and seven hours. Shigeru Kondo, system engineer for a food company based in northern Japan, easily passed the previous 2.7 trillion digit Pi record, set by a French engineer.

Scientists calculate pi trillion digits