Thanks to upgrades in Google Cloud’s Compute Engine and increases in throughput, Iwao and the Google team were able to get 100 trillion digits in 157 days of calculation time, which is just a ...

The formula turns an infinite sum into a more manageable calculation of single terms A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi - and a few ...

In mechanical calculators, where the digits of a number are often represented by wheels linked together by gears, incrementing the rightmost (least significant) digit past nine means that some ...

The 10 Trillion digit attempt used the same hardware, but needed 48 Terabytes of disk to store everything. Unfortunately, the time needed to calculate 10 Trillion digits didn’t scale linearly.

The project was able to achieve 100 Gbps egress bandwidth, a huge improvement on the 16 Gbps of egress available when they did the 31.4-trillion-digit calculation in 2019.

Although Iwao was using the same y-cruncher program to calculate pi as the previous record holder, her advantage lay in the use of Google’s cloud-based compute engine. The 31 trillion digits of ...

A 42-digit-long number that mathematicians have been hunting for decades, thanks to its sheer difficulty to calculate, has suddenly been found by two separate groups at the same time.