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Pi Day: Breakthrough 'obliterates' the world record for calculating pi

(Antonio Iacobelli/Moment/Getty Images) As Pi Day rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading ...
Wired

Google just smashed the world record for calculating digits of pi

Pi just got bigger. Google’s Compute Engine has calculated the most digits of pi ever, setting a new world record. Emma Haruka Iwao, who works in high performance computing and programming language ...
GeekWire

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Calculating 100 trillion digits of pi is a feat worth celebrating with a pie. (Google Graphic / The Keyword) Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google ...
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Chasing pi to infinity: 314 trillion digits calculated in a 110-day computing marathon

Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The ...
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Google sets new record for calculating pi — but what’s the point?

Developers have set a new record in the endless quest to accurately calculate pi. A team led by Google Cloud’s Emma Haruka Iwao found 100 TRILLION digits of the mathematical constant — smashing the ...