Swiss researchers with the help of a supercomputer were calculated by a pi constant with a new accuracy, having broken past records, up to 62.8 trillion numbers after a comma. This is reported in a press release on Phys.org.
According to scientists, the entire settlement took 108 days and nine hours. The calculation speed was almost twice as fast as when the record installed by Google is achieved using its cloud in 2019 (more than 31 trillion characters), and 3.5 times faster than the previous world record in 2020, when the PI was calculated More than 50 trillion digits after a comma. Currently, researchers are waiting for their result to confirm the Guinness Book of Records.
The last ten digits in the new value of the pi number is 7817924264. Although the number is irrational, that is, its decimal representation is infinite and not repeated, mathematics continue to clarify its value using powerful computers. The experience gained in computing is useful in other science areas, including when analyzing RNA, hydrodynamic modeling and text analysis.
The PI number is a mathematical constant and is defined as the ratio of the circumference length to the length of its diameter.