'If the calculated number turns out to be correct, the team from the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden will have the record attempt entered in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Mullican has since turned his machines over to STEM research and a series of university projects, after using the pi search to set their upper limits. He said the reason for attempting to break the record in the first place was to test the limits of his hardware. The current Guinness World Record of 50 trillion digits is held by Huntsville Alabama-based data scientist Timothy Mullican. Recently the world record for pi digits has switched between Swiss and US researchers. This makes it a 'transcendent' number, according to the Swiss data scientists. It means you can only get closer and closer to the exact number, never achieving the exact number. This means that it is impossible to specify pi exactly as a decimal point. What is mathematically interesting is that pi has no regularity or repetition. With the invention of computing devices in the 20th Century, the race began to increase the accuracy and push computers to their limit.Īs well as being useful in mathematics and science, pi is also used every day by engineers and craftsmen.įor example, it is used to calculate the circumference of a circle (U = 2πr) or the area of a circle (A = πr ^ 2). The invention of calculus in the late 17th Century, independently by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, allowed scientists to calculate pi to hundreds of digits. The quest to push the upper boundary of pi helps scientists test supercomputers and develop algorithms that can be used in advanced data analysis. The previous record of 50 trillion digits was set by Timothy Mullican from the US, who achieved the feat after eight months of processing in January 2020. The number π (pi) is a constant in mathematics that is roughly equal to 3.14159, and is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Researchers haven't revealed the exact numbers involved in the extra 12.8 trillion digits, as they are waiting on the Guinness Book of Records to certify their achievement, but say the final 10 digits they discovered are '7817924262'. The previous record was calculated to 50 trillion figures, and was set in 2020, said experts from Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences in Chur, Switzerland. Pi has been calculated to an astonishing 62.8 trillion figures by a team of Swiss scientists who spent 108 days working it up - 3.5 times as fast as the previous record.
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