How Google’s Cloud helped in creating this new world record

Let’s give you a slight refresher course in basic mathematics. Do you remember pi? For those who don’t remember pi is basically the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. And just in case you had forgotten the more commonly known value of pi is 3.14. What perhaps you didn’t know is that pi is an irrational number which means that there’s no end to how many of its digits can be calculated.
However, a Googler today has broken the world record of calculating the “most accurate value of pi” ever. To be precise, the Googler calculated it to 31,415,926,535,897 digits. To simplify it this is upto a whopping 31.4 trillion digits.
As per a blog post by Google, when Emma Haruka was 12 years old, she became fascinated with pi. The blog quotes her, “Pi seems simple—it starts with 3.14. When I was a kid, I downloaded a program to calculate pi on my computer,” she says. “At the time, the world record holders were Yasumasa Kanada and Daisuke Takahashi, who are Japanese, so it was really relatable for me growing up in Japan.”

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