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Google Cloud employee calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits

After starting the process in October 2021, it took the computers until March 2022 to finish. At 157 days, compared to 121 days spent figuring out a shorter number in 2019, it was going more than twice as fast

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Emma Haruka Iwao, an employee of tech giant Google has beaten her own record from three years ago after she managed to calculate the value of Pi in more digits than before by using Google Cloud, where she is a developer advocate.

In 2019, she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and now, using the same Google Cloud y-cruncher programme Iwao was able to find pi to its 100 trillionth digit, which is zero, reports The Verge.

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