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The last 100 decimal digits of the latest world record computation are: [1] 7034341087 5351110672 0525610978 1945263024 9604509887 5683914937 4658179610 2004394122 9823988073 3622511852 Graph showing how the record precision of numerical approximations to pi measured in decimal places (depicted on a logarithmic scale), evolved in human history.
The number π (/ p aɪ / ⓘ; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.
Later computers calculated pi to extraordinary numbers of digits (2.7 trillion as of August 2010), [4] and people began memorizing more and more of the output. The world record for the number of digits memorized has exploded since the mid-1990s, and it stood at 100,000 as of October 2006. [6]
That’s where pi comes in. The digits of pi extend into infinity, and pi is itself an irrational number, meaning it can’t be truly represented by an integer fraction (the one we often learn in ...
TachusPi by Fabrice Bellard [99] is the program used by himself to compute world record number of digits of pi in 2009. y-cruncher by Alexander Yee [47] is the program which every world record holder since Shigeru Kondo in 2010 has used to compute world record numbers of digits.
Pi 3.14159 26535 89793 ... Real number such that = =, or = () ... Champernowne constants in any base exhibit sporadic large numbers; the 40th term in has 2504 digits ...
In 1988, physicist Larry Shaw decided this enigmatic number deserved its own holiday and started Pi Day, choosing March 14 to represent the first three digits of pi—and because it also happens ...
Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14 because the date's numbers, 3-1-4 match the first three digits of pi, the never-ending mathematical number. ... which starts at 1:59 p.m. in a wink to ...