157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds is the time it took Emma Haruka Iwao, developer of Google Cloud, to establish the calculation of the greatest number of digits of Pi after the decimal point. In a blog post, the developer advocate said the operation was “a way to check the progress of data calculations by computers.” The new record high of 100 trillion digits follows another big performance from 2019 which peaked at 31.4 trillion digits.
An absolute record that testifies to progress in computing power
Emma Haruka Iwao and her team started using Google Cloud to calculate the largest number of digits of Pi a few years ago. In 2019, the developer signed her very first record in 121 days for 19,000 TB of data.
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At the end of this first breakthrough which earned her the title of 3rd woman in the world to achieve this record, Emma again undertook the quest with the same process, but more power. This time, Google Cloud took almost 158 days to triple the result with 100 trillion digits for 80,000 TB of data.
Through this feat, the developer claims that the evolution of computer computing power has, once again, taken a big step.
A historic discovery of the number Pi
In her press release, Emma delivered with emotion the excitement she felt when discovering the last number of Pi. 157 days from my computer […] The time had finally arrived. I would become the first and only person to discover the number […] It was a new record: we calculated the highest number of Pi ever reached”.