While there aren't many - if any - real-world physical applications where knowing more than 15 decimal places is required, that's not really the point. The researchers wrote that the most precise calculation of pi serves as an 'unofficial benchmark.' While knowing trillions of digits has no practical application, the point here is not in the exact knowledge of this sequence of digits, but the method by which the digits are calculated. Interesting fact about pi: Although computers have calculated pi to 22 trillion decimals, even NASA scientists round pi to 15 decimals when calculating. These researchers are awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records, so they've revealed only the final 10 digits calculated until then, which are 7817924264. According to the university statement, 'the extremely memory-intensive calculation of pi' took 108 days and nine hours, and the efforts not only beat the previous world record but it was calculated 3.5 times faster, the Guardian reported. The Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC) has calculated a more accurate estimation of the value of pi to we know today as 3.14159. While individuals attempt to break records by memorizing pis decimal points, scientists strive to find its most accurate value using new algorithms and powerful computers. Instead, it is infinitely long and never forms a repeating pattern. Massive amounts of memory and fast memory access times were critical for the calculation of pi in the trillion-digit range. This means it cant be written as a fraction. Despite this, researchers continue to use the evolving power of computers to push the limit of calculations for the constant.

The previous record was calculated to 50 trillion figures, and was set in 2020, said experts from Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences in Chur, Switzerland. Pi has been calculated to an astonishing 62.8 trillion figures by a team of Swiss scientists who spent 108 days working it up - 3.5 times as fast as the previous record.

This makes determining such a number an impressively difficult and time-consuming feat. Pi has been calculated to an astonishing 62.8 trillion figures by a team of Swiss scientists who spent 108 days working it up 3.5 times as fast as the previous record. Pi, whose first 10 figures are 3.141592653, is the circumference to diameter ratio of a circle, with an infinite number of digits following the decimal point.

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