Posted on 08/17/2021 7:38:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Swiss researchers said Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer.
"The calculation took 108 days and nine hours" using a supercomputer, the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences said in a statement.
Its efforts were "almost twice as fast as the record Google set using its cloud in 2019, and 3.5 times as fast as the previous world record in 2020", according to the university's Center for Data Analytics, Visualization and Simulation.
Researchers are waiting for the Guinness Book of Records to certify their feat, until then revealing only the final ten digits they calculated for pi: 7817924264.
The previous world-record pi calculation had achieved 50 trillion figures.
Pi represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, with an infinite number of digits following the decimal point.
Researchers nevertheless continue to push calculations for the constant – whose first 10 figures are 3.141592653 – ever further using powerful computers.
The Swiss team said that the experience they built up calculating pi could be applied in other areas like "RNA analysis, simulations of fluid dynamics and textual analysis".
I’m a math and computer geek and even I go: “So? What’s the point?” LOL
Now that’s accuracy.
Of course, tied to some of the COVID vaccines. Well, there went a fun concept.
Yeah, but I won’t believe it until the Facebook Fact Checkers have a look-see.
As my old math professor used to say, “Show your work!”...............
Pieces of Pi can be used for encryption codes..................
LOL
Savage
Agreed. But we don’t need millions of digits.
“Infinity never felt so close”
Spare me. 62 trillion digits? I’ve got about that much in storage devices somewhere in my desk.
You want a glimpse of infinity?
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Get a bucket first, because you’re going to need a bucket for your brain after it melts while reading that.
Summary:
Graham’s Number is the largest known non-infinite number which answers a meaningful (albeit obscure) question. Expressing it is ... difficult. We’re talking “big” as in just the number of digits is vastly larger than packing the entire universe full of quarks and writing each digit of that number on a quark.
When that scale is understood, consider that it’s nigh unto nothing compared to infinity.
Calculate pi to Graham’s Number of digits, and consider you’re just barely getting started.
Infinity is very, very far away.
So what is it?
About 3.14159.....................
Infinity is 100^100^100^100^100 divided by zero.
Sorry. The devil made me do it.
What an incredible waste of computer time and function. To prove what is already known as a irrational number, meaning it cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. The decimal representation of π is non-repeating.
The number can’t be written as a common fraction, though 22/7 approximates it. The decimal representation has not-— even in this ridiculous expense of time and utilization, been established as a permanently repeating pattern throughout any derivation.
>> using a supercomputer.
As I suspected. But we all know how to be even more precise.
Thank your “devil” heh!-— for all practical uses the 22/7 or 3 1/7 expressed as 3.14159 is sufficient.
If you really want to go full chinese torture the “Zu” number in the 5th Century calculated as being “between” 3.1415926 and 3.1415927 and then someone “proved” that 355/113 as an approximation was greater than π!
On and on. And of course global warming by (?) is absolutely causing permanent climate change proven by computer “data” extrapolations.
“Hey Siri, what’s zero divided by zero?”
“Imagine you have zero cookies, and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See, it doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies. And your friends are sad because they don’t exist. Oh wow. This escalated quickly.”
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