Google Celebrates Pi Day As Employee Calculates New World Record

Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, calculated pi to new world record. Google announced the milestone on Thursday March 14, also known as Pi Day (3.14). Iwao calculated pi to 31 trillion digits (31,415,926,535,897), far outpacing the previous record of 24.6 trillion, set in 2016 by Peter Trueb. A Google employee broke the world record for calculating pi Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao used Google’s cloud computing service to break the world record for calculating pi, an infinite number vital to engineering. Most people will be familiar with the first few digits … pic.twitter.com/IlSWGnyu8x — best tech trade (@besttechtrade) March 14, 2019 Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It’s an important foundation of mathematics, most importantly in geometry, physics and engineering. 3.14, pi’s first three digits, are well known but the rest is infinitely long. Extending the number is no leisurely pastime. It’s an extremely difficult challenge since the sequence follows no set pattern. Mathematician James Grime says that just 39 digits of pi is enough to calculate the circumference of the known universe, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab only uses 15 digits to calculate interplanetary travel. Pi is being used in many NASA pursuits, including landing on Mars, discovering new inhabitable planets and tracking asteroid movements. Iwao found the digits with the help of Google Cloud in the Japanese city of ...
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