• @[email protected]
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    38 days ago

    is 200m what’s been discovered, or just what was worth putting into this program? Not a huge expert but I thought it’s all fairly easy to get the next number of pi, just seemingly never ending.

    • Steve Dice
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      68 days ago

      We currently know about 202 trillion digits of pi. As for your other question: it is easy to get the next digit of pi from a “mathematical” point of view. By this I mean that we know functions that will approximate pi with as much precision as we want, but actually having a computer do it is very hard. The digits we know today took 3 months and needed 1.5 petabytes of high end storage.

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      28 days ago

      Apparently it’s been calculated to trillions of digits so a bit lacking.

      The search on that length would need an optimized index.