Most accurate value of pi
Who
University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
What
62,831,853,071,796 total number
Where
Switzerland (Chur)
When

The most accurate value of pi is 62,831,853,071,796 digits, and was achieved by University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (Switzerland) in Chur, Switzerland, on 19 August 2021.


Team DAViS of UAS Grisons, headed by Heiko Rölke and Thomas Keller, computed an additional 12.8 trillion digits of pi. They employed a computer with one terabyte of RAM and 510 terabytes of disk space. The system completed the calculation within 108 days. The record run was part of a tuning and testing phase of a server which will be used in areas such as RNA analysis and machine translation