What are the first two quadrillion digits of pi?

Answer 1

There are three reasons why no answer to your question can be given here:

1) answers here cannot display more than a few thousand characters

2) only about 38 decimal places would ever be required for any conceivable practical use!

3) the current record as of 2018 is 22 trillion decimal places (0.022 quadrillion digits) - the "two quadrillion" figure quoted was the calculation of the two quadrillionth value of the binary value of pi, along with some of the 0's and 1's immediately before it. All of the intervening values were skipped over.

If the value of PI to two quadrillion places was to be actually written down, it would take several years with the fastest input possible. At 2,000 characters per second, it would take 31,000 years to type the full two quadrillion (2 x 10^15) digits.

The answer would then occupy roughly 2,000 TB (2 million Gigabytes) in the Answers.com servers. All of my other answers on this site, as well as those written by a great number of those by other active contributors would have to be flushed in order to make room for this one whimsical and, let's face it, useless contribution.

Answer 2

There are a few good, fundamental reasons why no answer to your question can be

given here:

-- PI has been computed to only a few trillion decimal places ... only about 1/4 percent

of the answer you're looking for.

-- If the value of PI to two quadrillion places DID exist, and I could type 10 digits

every second and never stop until I finished, it would take me about 6.34 million

years to type the full two quadrillion digits at that rate. Frankly, I have other things

to do. And I suspect that you might have lost interest by then.

-- If I did it, the answer would then occupy roughly 2,000 TB (2 million Gigabytes) in the

Answers.com servers. All of my other answers on this site, as well as those written by a

great number of far more active contributors than I am, would have to be flushed in order

to make room for this one whimsical and, let's face it, useless contribution.

-- Can you download 100 MB per second over your internet connection ? Probably not.

But if you could, and nobody else ever got a turn to use the same access pipe that

you use, then you could download the two-quadrillion-digit answer in only 230 days.

And you'd need the same 2,000 external 1-TB drives to keep it in.

So with all due respect, and with gratitude to you for stopping by and leaving a question,

I must regretfully decline to submit any answer to it.