On Aug. 5, researchers from the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Switzerland announced that they had broken the record for the most accurate value of pi by more than 12 trillion decimal places, using a computer at the Competence Center for Data Analysis, Visualization and Simulation (DAViS).

How far has pi been calculated 2021?

Researchers have set a new record for calculating digits of pi: 62.8 trillion decimals. The new record is enabled by a supercomputer running a specialized algorithm.

Are we still calculating pi?

Mathematicians around the world have been computing pi since ancient times, but techniques to do so changed dramatically after the 17th century, with the development of calculus and the techniques of infinite series. ... But it takes a long time — after 500,000 terms, it produces only five correct decimal places of pi!