2022-06-15
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3840×2026Check out Emma's blog post about the calculation:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-100-trillion-digits-of-pi-on-google-cloud
Register for Emma's live seminar! It's on at 19:00 BST and different time zones are different.
https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/pi-time
Emma Haruka Iwao's records:
2019: 31,415,926,535,897 digits of π
2022: 100,000,000,000,000 digits of π
Chudnovsky algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm
And here is me Chudnovskying by hand: /youtube/video/LhlqCJjbEa0
Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula
y-cruncher - A Multi-Threaded Pi-Program
http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/
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CORRECTIONS:
- At 07:34 I say that the first column are the hex locations. They are not. Those are the base-10 locations in scientific notation. Sorry!
- A few people noticed that at 02:20 I say 128 when I mean 158. The on-screen number is correct.
- Let me know if you spot any other mistakes
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Additional footage by Emma Haruka Iwao
Blah blah blah by Matt
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com/
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