Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Last but not least, the OS was changed from Windows Server to Ubuntu 24.04.2, a simple switch that resulted in better I/O performance on its own.

  Oh boy, here we go.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Of course, find the secret of pi using the Linux version ‘answer to everything’.

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    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah fedora is on 43 now darn

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  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why is this even related to IO?

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess the Windows disk drivers are shit compared to Linux ones.

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At this rate, finding the last digit is probably just a few years down the road.

  At least 3.14 years.

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s approximately 314 trillion more digits than is necessary to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within a Planck length.

  (The actual number is 62.)

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Last but not least, the OS was changed from Windows Server to Ubuntu 24.04.2, a simple switch that resulted in better I/O performance on its own.

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• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Finally, we can get some precision and accuracy when using pi in calculations.

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• HairyHarry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So it is expected to be a last digit?

  And what can be done with this knowledge?

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pi is transcendental. There is no last number.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How zen.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think there's proofs to show that won't happen. Don't ask me to find them or explain them, it's beyond my scope.

    What I'm waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.

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    • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah, another Contact enjoyer.

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    • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean if pi is infinite, wouldn’t that happen anyway at some point?

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pi by definition has no last digit, if it had one it would be possible to square the circle (even if it wouud require an absurd amount of precision)

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    • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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