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| Emma Haruka Iwao values pi and pie. |
A Google employee has calculated the value of Pi to 31.4 trillion digits establishing a new world record.
In honor of Pi Day, today (March 14), Emma Haruka Iwao, who works as a cloud developer advocate at Google, calculated pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits, smashing the previous record of 22,459,157,718,361 digits set back in 2016, according to The Verge.
Ever since the ancient Babylonians, people have been calculating the digits of π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter that starts as 3.1415 … and goes on, in theory ... forever.
I'm told that NASA only uses around 15 digits of pi to send rockets into space, and measuring the visible Universe’s circumference to the precision of a single atom would take just 40 digits.
That's not to take away from Iwao's massive feat, but in my life, I've had to use the value of Pi exactly ... well, zero times.
I guess that means I don't live a very exciting life.
If you'd like to spice up your life and have access to Iwao's calculation, click here. Have a happy Pi Day!
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