Value of PI calculated to 31.4 Trillion Digits

Dru Edwards · #1 03-15-2019, 01:19 AM

Well, Pi added 9 trillion new digits to it on Pi Day (March 14, 2019). It's now calculated to 31.4 trillion digits. Took 111 days using Google's cloud service.

I feel like a fool that I only know Pi to 6 digits.

Bax Burgess · #2 03-15-2019, 01:31 AM

She used up an 80 roll case of Scott toilet paper to write out the calculations.

Kerbie · #3 03-15-2019, 01:32 AM

Here's to all math brains of the world! In my family, that would be my brother... not me.

But a day we should all celebrate.

Silurian · #4 03-15-2019, 02:14 AM

My wife told me it was Pi day. Of course I got the wrong end of the stick and started thinking of steak in a rich gravy encased in puff pastry. I could eat two at a time with my ten digits.

Slothead56 · #5 03-15-2019, 06:50 AM

Hey, that’s awesome!

Will this help me get to a live person at Comcast Customer Service without waiting for 10 minutes?

Dru Edwards · #6 03-15-2019, 07:46 AM

One of the things people are trying to find with Pi is whether it is a true irrational number that is infinite or whether one day we will find that it does repeat.

Emma Haruka Iwao - she's the woman who just accomplished this. I wanted to give her the recognition in case people here might have thought it was me.

Shoreline Music · #7 03-15-2019, 08:01 AM

I don't care what the mathematicians say—I still insist that pies are round.

PeteCady · #8 03-15-2019, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Bax Burgess

She used up an 80 roll case of Scott toilet paper to write out the calculations.

More than that, I think. Playing dumb number games, using Google as a calculator, it seems that if that number were printed out in standard ten-characters to the inch print, on a single line, it'd be roughly 49.5 million miles long. But I might have fumbled a decimal place, one way or the other...

Dru Edwards · #9 03-15-2019, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeteCady

More than that, I think. Playing dumb number games, using Google as a calculator, it seems that if that number were printed out in standard ten-characters to the inch print, on a single line, it'd be roughly 49.5 million miles long. But I might have fumbled a decimal place, one way or the other...

I just did the math and you are correct. That's nearly half the distance to the sun.