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Pi calculated to 'record number' of digits

A computer scientist claims to have computed the mathematical constant pi to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, using a Desktop PC.

Pi is an irrantional number, meaning the number of digits is contains can in theory go on forever.

And now it appears a Desktop PC has has gone further than any supercomputer has gone before by putting 2.7 trillion numbers correctly in place after the first 6 numbers, 3.14159.....

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mrv3215217d ago

That's one hell of a big circle.

RedDragan5217d ago

lmfao....

Nice one XD

Bubble for the lulz!

Mo0eY5217d ago (Edited 5217d ago )

I came here for the pi, I left here with a laugh.

Proxy5217d ago

I've done the math in my head, and the 3 trillionth digit is 2.

randomwiz5217d ago

I did the math in my head and I calculated the 8 trillionth number to be anywhere between 1 and 9 inclusive.

darthv725217d ago

should be able to go to 11...

Hellsvacancy5217d ago

I saw the Darren Aronofsky film called Pi, man thats 1 messed up movie

Proxy5217d ago

There's a 90% chance your correct.

But if it's a 0, then you lose. :)

mrv3215217d ago

Actually 0 barely appears in pi so he has a great than 90% of being correct.

cyclindk5217d ago

Actually this figure in no way denotes the parameters of any PARTICULAR circle, but rather it is a ratio of ANY circle's circumference to its diameter.

Proxy5217d ago

I counted through the first 1.1 million digits of pi (well, my computer did) and came up with the fallowing:

99959 0's
99758 1's
100026 2's
100229 3's
100230 4's
100359 5's
99548 6's
99800 7's
99985 8's
100106 9's

So there's a 90.004% chance he's correct; which, as you said, is greater than 90%.

Count them yourself if you want: http://pi.is.online.fr/pi.h...

SixZeroFour5216d ago

cyclindk is right..i was about reply on original post, luckily i read through the replies first...lol

pi has no relation to the area of a circle until a diameter (more specifically its radius, but you can get that through the diameter) is known

but were gamers, why would we want to know that...lol

btw...2.7trillion digits later, pi is definitively not a repeating decimal now right? cause some wondered if it would eventually be a repeating decimal at some point

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morphx3me5217d ago

@ lol a chance out of 10 eh ,

i predict 7 :P

Bathyj5217d ago

So whats the big deal about Pi?

Do we have to know a circumference or area of a circle so accurately that we need Pi calculated to so many decimal places?
Its going to make so little a difference to your final measurement is not really worth the effort.

I think calculating Pi is like the equivilant of bowling a 300 or getting a hole in one for maths nerds.

thor5217d ago

Well read the article.

He says it's not the number that is important (if we need to do calculations using Pi we can do them to arbitrary precision anyway). It's the algorithms that went into calculating it that are of interest.

In practice using it to work out the area of a circle you would only need about 10 digits maximum.

MerkinMax5217d ago

Both of the things you just mentioned have already been accomplished.

morphx3me5217d ago

As THOR said Bathyj ''In practice using it to work out the area of a circle you would only need about 10 digits maximum'' but hypothetically if one of those 10 numbers were to change it would change the dimension of that circle.

So more the number as you know when doing maths gives us a much more accurate answer than rounding up figures and Pi aint just used for the circumference of a circle but in many things geometry, trigonometry, calculus , Probability and statistics and most importantly used in many physics equations explaining the universe.

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