Swiss Scientists Declare Brand-New Records for the Specific pi Figure

Swiss researchers claimed on 16 August that they had computed the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record degree of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures utilizing a supercomputer.

The Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences declared that the calculation took 108 days and nine hours while using a supercomputer.

Its initiatives were “nearly two times as quick as the record Google set with its cloud in 2019, and 3.5 times as rapid as the previous global record in 2020”, according to the university’s Center for Data Analytics, Visualization, and Simulation.

Researchers are awaiting the Guinness Book of Records to license their accomplishment, up until then disclosing only the last ten figures they calculated for pi: 7817924264.

The previous world-record pi estimation had achieved 50 trillion numbers.

Pi stands for a circle’s circumference ratio to its diameter, with a limitless number of digits after the decimal point.

Nevertheless, researchers still push calculations for the constant – whose first ten figures are 3.141592653 – ever further utilizing powerful computers.

The Swiss group claimed that the experience they accumulated computing pi could be employed in various other areas like “RNA evaluation, simulations of fluid dynamics and textual evaluation.”

Originally published on Phys.org. Read the original article in PHYS.