A Swiss university said Monday it had set a record for calculating the number Pi, with 62.8 trillion decimal places.
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In a statement, the University of Applied Sciences (HES) Graubünden in eastern Switzerland is pleased to have achieved this result thanks to a high-performance computer that worked for 108 days and 9 hours.
"It is therefore almost twice as fast as the record set by Google in 2019, and about 3.5 times faster than the last world record in 2020," said the
press release.
The last ten digits of Pi are
"7817924264",
indicates the HES which indicates that it will reveal the complete number only once the record has been approved by the Guinness Book of Records.
12.8 trillion new figures
The press release ensures that the HES computer has exceeded in its calculations the old world record of 50,000 billion decimal places by adding 12,800 billion new figures unknown until then.
Pi is the number by which we must multiply the diameter of a circle to obtain its circumference and it is impossible to know the exact value because the number of digits after the decimal point is infinite.
But the knowledge of Pi continues to be refined thanks to the arrival of powerful computers.
However, even if enthusiasts struggle to remember hundreds or thousands of digits after the comma, the general public generally sticks to 3.1415927 at best.