Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao has calculated pi to 31 trillion digits.
Doing so required huge amounts of data processing. Using the program y-cruncher on a Google Compute Engine cluster, she ate through 170 terabytes of data over about four months.
To give a sense of scale,You can watch Iwao explain how she calculated pi here:Iwao says that this is the first time cloud computing has been used to calculate pi and break the record. A Yahoo engineer used the company's cloud tech in 2010 toIwao told the BBC that she's not done with pi."There is no end with pi, I would love to try with more digits," she said.
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