Emma Haruka Iwao calculates the value of pi to 31 trillion digits.
"I feel very surprised," Ms Iwao said of her achievement.But she still hopes to expand on her work.Google announced the news in a blog on Pi Day .calculating the size of a parachute required to send a rover down on to the surface of Marsgetting spacecraft to brake at just the right time to enter orbit around planets
"Pi is useful not only for measuring circles but it also appears in calculations for everything from the period of a pendulum to the buckling force of a beam," said mathematician Matt Parker.In 2010, Nicholas Sze used Yahoo cloud computing toHowever, he did not calculate all the digits in between.
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