{"id":137832,"date":"2022-04-07T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-just-broke-the-record-for-calculating-pi-and-infinity-never-felt-so-close"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:02:58","slug":"scientists-just-broke-the-record-for-calculating-pi-and-infinity-never-felt-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-just-broke-the-record-for-calculating-pi-and-infinity-never-felt-so-close","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Broke The Record For Calculating Pi, And Infinity Never Felt So Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-broke-the-record-for-calculating-pi-and-infinity-never-felt-so-close2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2021<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Swiss researchers said Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe calculation took 108 days and nine hours\u201d using a supercomputer, the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhgr.ch\/news\/newsdetail\/meilenstein-zum-pi-stellen-weltrekord-erreicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its efforts were \u201calmost twice as fast as the record Google set using its cloud in 2019, and 3.5 times as fast as the previous world record in 2020\u201d, according to the university\u2019s Center for Data Analytics, Visualization and Simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2021 Swiss researchers said Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer. \u201cThe calculation took 108 days and nine hours\u201d using a supercomputer, the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences said in a statement. Its efforts were \u201calmost twice as fast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}