As an irrational number, pi has no end — but that has not stopped computer engineers from chasing its eternal string of decimal places deeper into the unknown. Recently, technology media company StorageReview achieved a staggering new record, calculating 314 trillion digits of pi on a single Dell PowerEdge R7725 server that ran constantly for nearly four months.
The result shows that in modern pi calculations, the real battle is no longer just about processor speed but also storage space and efficiency. StorageReview's Dell PowerEdge R7725 server had 1.5 terabytes of memory to get the job done.
