(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 09 – New record in the calculation of Pi, up to 100 trillion digits using Google Cloud. He was joined by developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her Mountain View colleagues who had already set a record in 2019 by performing a calculation with an accuracy of 31.4 trillion digits. The record has been broken several times since, including by researchers at the University of Applied Sciences in Graubunde in Switzerland, who calculated Pi to 62.8 trillion decimal places in 2021. Iwao and her team are working with Guinness World Records for the official validation of their result.
In a blog post, Iwao wrote that finding as many digits of Pi as possible is a way to measure the progress of computing power, his job is to show what Google Cloud is capable of by subjecting it to some sort of stress test. . In 2019, the calculation took 121 days; this time, the calculation was performed in 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7,651 seconds. It means that the computers ran at more than double the speed, despite Iwao using “the same tools and techniques”.
Overall, around 82,000 terabytes of data were processed. Iwao noted that reading all 100 trillion digits aloud at the rate of one per second would take more than 3.1 million years. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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