Researchers Break Pi Calculation Record



Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have broken the record for the number of calculated digits of the constant pi:

The T2K Tsukuba System is a 640-computer cluster with a processing speed of 95 trillion floating-point operations per second. The T2K calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes, which is a small fraction of the 600 hours taken by the previous record holders—Hitachi and the University of Tokyo—who calculated only 1.2 trillion places.


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Pi's decimal representation is infinitely long.

All we're doing here is benchmarking cluster performance and giving autistic savants new things to memorize.
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if we know it to a certain point we well be able to draw energy from subspace, that is, the exact amount of energy it takes to calculate which creates a paradox that finally let´s us divide by zero what happens after that I can´t even possibly imagine . . .
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