The trillionth decimal place of Pi is known: 0. Emma Haruka Iwao used Google Cloud Platform to calculate the number, which took more than 157 days.
Emma is the Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. She used Google Cloud’s Compute Engine (virtual machines) to run the y-cruncher program that calculates the decimals of pi using the chudnovsky algorithm.
100 trillion pi decimals is a new record. Emma also set a record with 31.4 trillion decimal places in 2019, followed by 121 days. Scientists at a Swiss university added another 31.4 trillion decimal places in 2021.
According to Emma, the computation is essentially proof that Google’s Cloud Platform infrastructure is getting faster and faster. Where in 2019 y-cruncher averaged about 0.26 trillion decimal places per day, in 2022 this will be almost 0.64 trillion, more than double.
Sources: Google (1), (2)
Source: Hardware Info
