PI has always been an interesting mathematical constant. Most of the mathematicians in the world are using Pi to derive formulas.
Newton himself worked on the digits of Pi and spent a lot of time using one of the formulas he developed to get a few extra digits.
31 Dec 2009, Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer/scientist from France, claimed the new world record for calculation of Pi, having it to nearly 2.7 trillion places. He announced that he used his desktop to calculate the 2.7 trillion digits.
By having 2.7 trillion digits, he had broken the previous record of 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The previous record was set using multi million Super Computers; where as the new record has been set using a desktop computer.
Few of the interesting facts about his findings.
It took 131 days to calculate 2.7 trillion digits
Used a desktop of Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz, 6 GB of RAM and 7.5 TB hard disks.
Linux – Red Hat Fedora 10 distribution was used for this calculation.
Desktop used to calculated the 2.7 trillion digits is worth less than 2000 Euros.
The base 10 results needs 1137 GB of storage space.
Let us wish him to continue his research to find more. This would definitely give a new dimension to Aribitrary Precision Arithmetic techniques.
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