In 2024, a team at StorageReview calculated Pi to 105 Trillion digits.
That's: 105,000,000,000,000 digits.
Storing 2 digits in a byte, that's still ~53 TB of storage - for a single number!
https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/235709-another-serving-of-pi-solidigm-ssds-help-calculate-new-world-record
#Pi #PiDay #PiDay2025 #Mathematics #Storage
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