Thread: Boffins find 1.2 trillion pieces of pi

Boffins find 1.2 trillion pieces of pi
December 08, 2002

A TEAM of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.2411 trillion places, one of the researchers says.

Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Centre at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 hours in September, project team member Makoto Kudo said.

The new calculation is more than six times the number of places in the record currently recognised by Guiness World Records - 206.158 billion places - which Kanada also helped calculate in 1999.

Kanada's team spent five years designing the program used to calculate pi in the September experiment to test the efficiency of the supercomputer, Kudo said.

The Hitachi supercomputer is capable of 2 trillion calculations per second, or twice as fast as the one used for the current Guiness record calculation.

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