Published On: October 9th, 2023Categories: AI News

Why You (Almost) Can’t Calculate Pi to a Billion Digits in Python at ...

It is harder than you think

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Introduction

In June 9, 2022 Google set a new world record for calculating the most number of digits of Pi — 100 TRILLION! This monumental achievement was possible using the y-cruncher program running on Google Cloud. It crunched numbers for a whopping 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds.

If one billion is 100 thousand times smaller than 100 trillion, would the runtime decrease accordingly? In other words, would it take only…

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