Because Pi is known to be an irrational number it means that the digits never end or repeat in any known way. But calculating the digits of Pi has proven to be an fascination for mathematicians throughout history. Some spent their lives calculating the digits of Pi, but until computers, less than 1,000 digits had been calculated. In 1949, a computer calculated 2,000 digits and the race was on. Millions of digits have been calculated, with the record held (as of September 1999) by a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo that calculated 206,158,430,000 digits. (first 1,000 digits). However, learning 3.141, is all that is necessary. But you can go on and on, to infinity, and never find the exact circumference of a circle. I have only memorized 205 digits of pi; and yes I do use it to find the circumference of a circle.
the current record for decimal places that pi has been calculated to is 1,241,100,000,000 THIS IS MORE THAN A TRILLION * * * * * As of 17 October 2011, the answer is 10 trillion.
1.2411 trillion digits (1,241,100,000,000) digits of pi have been dicovered.
There are too many digits, but I'll give you the ones I've memorized: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944... ~ To the above answer: That's not what the question is asking. Answer: Digits of pi used to be calculated by dividing the circumference by the diameter of a circle. The same answer will come out for all circles. Now, we have machines that can crunch up millions of digits in a relatively short amount of time.
An infinite number. As of late 2011, over 10 trillion (1013) digits have been computed.
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Almost 2.7 trillion digits. * * * * * As of 17 October 2011, the answer is 10 trillion = 1013.
Because Pi is known to be an irrational number it means that the digits never end or repeat in any known way. But calculating the digits of Pi has proven to be an fascination for mathematicians throughout history. Some spent their lives calculating the digits of Pi, but until computers, less than 1,000 digits had been calculated. In 1949, a computer calculated 2,000 digits and the race was on. Millions of digits have been calculated, with the record held (as of September 1999) by a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo that calculated 206,158,430,000 digits. (first 1,000 digits). However, learning 3.141, is all that is necessary. But you can go on and on, to infinity, and never find the exact circumference of a circle. I have only memorized 205 digits of pi; and yes I do use it to find the circumference of a circle.
As of April 1999, 68.7 billion places had been calculated. As of September 1999, 206 billion places had been calculated.
the current record for decimal places that pi has been calculated to is 1,241,100,000,000 THIS IS MORE THAN A TRILLION * * * * * As of 17 October 2011, the answer is 10 trillion.
As of 17 October 2011, the answer is 10 trillion. See link.
The "Pi Computer Project" or PCP finished some time in November 2010, it calculated about 5 trillion digits! * * * * * But the number crunching goes on! As of 17 October 2011, the answer is 10 trillion.
how many generations of computer languages have there been since the middle of the 20th century
1.2411 trillion digits (1,241,100,000,000) digits of pi have been dicovered. * * * * * 1.2 trillion? That is ancient history! Pi is a transcendental number and so its decimal representation has infinitely many digits. Ten trillion digits in its decimal form were calculated in October 2011. See link for details.
Currently (Sept 2014), the number of digits is 10 trillion (and fifty).
Pi was calculated, and could be written to any number of places you wanted if you were willing to spend the time at it, hundreds of years before anbody ever imagined the idea of a computer.
1.2411 trillion digits (1,241,100,000,000) digits of pi have been dicovered.