«Breaking News» Google calculates pi to 31TRILLION digits by breaking world record on ‘Pi Day’

A member of Google's staff has broken the world record for calculating Pi to the highest number of digits - at 31 trillion.

They made their announcement today, on Pi day which falls on March 14th, or 3.14 in its most basic form.

Company employee Emma Haruka Iwao used an application called y-cruncher on 25 Google Cloud virtual machines from her office in Japan.

The calculation took about 121 days to complete – with zero breaks, otherwise it would have been disrupted.  

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Company employee Emma Haruka Iwao, here, used an application called y-cruncher on 25 Google Cloud virtual machines. The calculation took about 121 days to complete – with zero breaks, otherwise it would have been disrupted 

In mathematics pi is the ratio of a circle's radius to its circumference, has far more digits that continue infinitely without repetition.

Supercomputers are often tasked with calculating the number to more digits - the previous record is 22 trillion digits.

But now the record has been broken by Ms Haruka Iwao who used Google Cloud's Compute Engine. 

She calculated it to 31,415,926,535,897 digits, which also happens to be the value of pi – 3.1415926535897. 

'Pi seems simple – it starts with 3.14. When I was a kid, I downloaded a program to calculate pi on my computer,' Emma said.

In mathematics pi is the ratio of a circle's radius to its circumference, has far more digits that continue infinitely without repetition. Supercomputers are often tasked with calculating the number to more digits - the previous record is 22 trillion digits

A member of Google's staff has broken the world record for calculating Pi to the highest number of digits - at 31 trillion. They made their announcement today, on Pi day which falls on March 14th, or 3.14 in its most basic form

'When I was a kid, I didn't have access to supercomputers.

'But even if you don't work for Google, you can apply for various scholarships and programs to access computing resources.

'I was very fortunate that there were Japanese world record holders that I could relate to myself.

'I'm really happy to be one of the few women in computer science holding the record, and I hope I can show more people who want to work in the industry what's possible.'

Emma used an application called y-cruncher on 25 Google Cloud virtual machines. 

'The biggest challenge with pi is that it requires a lot of storage and memory to calculate,' Emma explained. 

WHAT IS CHINA'S 'SUPER SUPER COMPUTER' COMPETING WITH THE US?

On Friday, the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee unveiled the 'Summit' supercomputer that can deliver a peak performance of 200 petaflops, or about 200 quadrillion calculations per second.

It managed to beat out the previous record holder that was China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer.

Summit managed to beat out the previous record holder that was China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer (pictured), which had a peak performance of 93 petaflops

Summit is 60% faster than the TaihuLight supercomputer, which could achieve a peak performance of 93 petaflops.  

Previously, China was home to the world's two fastest supercomputers. 

China held that record for five years. 

Last year, China, had 202 machines on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. Meanwhile, the US only had 143.  

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Main photo article A member of Google‘s staff has broken the world record for calculating Pi to the highest number of digits – at 31 trillion.
They made their announcement today, on Pi day which falls on March 14th, or 3.14 in its most basic form.
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