Desktop computer sets new pi record

A comparitively humble desktop computer has successfully calculated pi to 2.7 trillion digits, 123 billion more than the previous record set by a supercomputer in August 2009. Since 1995, records for pi have been set by supercomputers, but Fabrice Bellard claims his method is 20 times more efficient.  Gizmag reports that using a Core i7 running at 2.93GHz, with 6GB RAM and a 7.5TB of hard disk space, it took 131 days and over a terabyte of disk storage for Febrice Bellard to complete and check the record of 2,699,999,990,000 digits.  So how long is that number?  Read full story...


 


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