Did you eat a piece of cake to celebrate Pi day?
A Googler just broke the old world record for counting pi, and it doesn’t seem impressive enough: she broke the record to celebrate the only day of the year involving the number 3.14, March 14. She Emma Haruka Iwao took 4 months to prepare and perfect the performance. Obviously you succeeded, we have this interesting piece of news, Miss Iwao has calculated 31.4 million million digits.
In Mathematics, Pi is a special “character”. It is an irrational, non-periodic constant, extending to infinity.
In Mathematics, Pi is a special “character”. It is an irrational, non-periodic constant, extending to infinity. One calculates Pi by dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter, the result is 3.1415926535897 … . There is a mathematician who said that any sequence of numbers can be on the infinite sequence of Pi, the possibilities of Pi are endless.
The record for counting Pi was set at Google’s office in Osaka, Japan, where Ms. Iwao worked as a software programmer for the Google Cloud project. It is also obvious that Iwao uses 25 network nodes of the Google Cloud cloud computing service to calculate a huge number. This is also the first Pi to be calculated in the cloud.
On Wednesday, Guinness World Records officially confirmed Emma Haruka’s achievement, making her the third woman to receive the honor. In the previous record-setting attempt, Peter Trueb counted Pi to 22.4 million digits.
Google announced the above information on Pi Day, March 14. ” This has been my dream since I was a kid, a dream I’ve been chasing all day, to break the record for counting Pi ,” Iwao told CNN. She has been training since the age of 12 to get to this day. When she was 12 years old, she downloaded her first computer software to calculate Pi.
“This has been my dream since childhood, the dream I’ve been chasing all day, to break the record for counting Pi,” Iwao said.
Iwao also said she received help from Alexander Yee, the inventor of the “y-cruncher” software to calculate the number of Pe and many other constants. Her tutor and former record holder, Daisuke Takahashi, was very supportive and showed the easiest ways to achieve the record.
This event has three notable points:
Today, one can download the entire 31,415,926,535,897 digits to experiment with as much as they like. In the old “low-tech” days, people had to lend each other hard drives to fit a small part of Pi, a small part of infinity.
“We are still continuously investing in cloud computing, over time the project has improved a lot ,” said Iwao proudly. ” Hopefully in the future, we can achieve even greater processing power than today .”