Has anyone found the end of pi?

Technically no, though no one has ever been able to find a true end to the number. It's actually considered an "irrational" number, because it keeps going in a way that we can't quite calculate. Pi dates back to 250 BCE by a Greek mathematician Archimedes, who used polygons to determine the circumference.
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Was the end of pi found?

UPDATE (March 14, 2019, 1:18 p.m.): On Thursday, Google announced that one of its employees, Emma Haruka Iwao, had found nearly 9 trillion new digits of pi, setting a new record. Humans have now calculated the never-ending number to 31,415,926,535,897 (get it?) — about 31.4 trillion — decimal places.
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What happens if pi has an end?

The answer is that pi is irrational, so it cannot be written as a ratio of integers, i.e. p/q for some integers p and q. If pi's decimal expansion terminated or repeated, then it would necessarily be a ratio of integers.
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What is the 31 trillionth digit of pi?

Google announced the milestone on Thursday March 14, also known as Pi Day (3.14). Iwao calculated pi to 31 trillion digits (31,415,926,535,897), far outpacing the previous record of 24.6 trillion, set in 2016 by Peter Trueb.
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What are the first 1000000000000 digits of pi?

3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 ...
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How many digits of pi does NASA use?

For most calculations, NASA uses 15 digits: 3.141592653589793.
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Why is pi called pi?

It was first called "pi" in 1706 by [the Welsh mathematician] William Jones, because pi is the first letter in the Greek word perimitros, which means "perimeter."
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How far has pi been calculated 2021?

Using a high-performance computer, a team of Swiss researchers have calculated a new most accurate value of pi. The record-breaking value counts 62,831,853,071,796 digits, as confirmed by project leader Thomas Keller and his team on 19 August 2021, adding 12.8 billion new digits to pi.
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WHO estimated pi to over 22 trillion digits?

The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion. Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with the help of the company's cloud computing service.
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Who has the most pi?

While the world record for this is being held by Chao Lu of Shaanxi province in China in 2005 for memorising 67,890 digits of the value of Pi recited in 24 hours and eight minutes, Rajveer has made an attempt to memorise 70,000 digits in just nine hours, seven minutes.
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What are the 50 trillion digits of pi?

Conversation. The most accurate value of pi goes to 50,000,000,000,000 digits. That's 50 trillion decimal places! ? It would take over 178 billion tweets to write it out in full.
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Do we know pi is infinite?

Pi is a number that relates a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi is an irrational number, which means that it is a real number that cannot be expressed by a simple fraction. That's because pi is what mathematicians call an "infinite decimal" — after the decimal point, the digits go on forever and ever.
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What is pi's last number?

Pi is an irrational number. As such, it has no final digit. Furthermore, there is no pattern to its digits.
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What is the 1 millionth number of pi?

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3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 etc. Before you click remember - it's a byte a digit! The first 1000000 decimal places contain: 99959 0s, 99758 1s, 100026 2s, 100229 3s, 100230 4s, 100359 5s, 99548 6s, 99800 7s, 99985 8s and 100106 9s.
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Is pi bigger than infinity?

Pi is finite, whereas its expression is infinite. Pi has a finite value between 3 and 4, precisely, more than 3.1, then 3.15 and so on. Hence, pi is a real number, but since it is irrational, its decimal representation is endless, so we call it infinite.
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Do numbers end?

The sequence of natural numbers never ends, and is infinite. OK, 1/3 is a finite number (it is not infinite). There's no reason why the 3s should ever stop: they repeat infinitely. So, when we see a number like "0.999..." (i.e. a decimal number with an infinite series of 9s), there is no end to the number of 9s.
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Does pi have a zero?

The first zero in pi occurs at position 32.
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What is pi to infinity?

3.1415926 < π < 3.1415927. By allowing the number of sides in the polygons to increase indefinitely, all the way out to infinity, we can generate as many digits of pi as we like, at least in principle.
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What is the 31.4 trillion digits of pi?

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In 2019, Emma Haruka Iwao broke the Pi digits world record by computing 31,415,926,535,897 digits of Pi using Google Cloud Platform! Learn more details from Emma's Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits blog, and Alex Yee (creator of y-cruncher)'s Google Cloud Topples the Pi record article.
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Is pi the biggest number?

Haruka Iwao set a world record by calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits using Google cloud technology. Here's the full mind-boggling number: 31,415,926,535,897 digits. The previous record, set by Peter Trueb in late 2016, was 22.4 trillion digits.
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Is there a computer still calculating pi?

Researchers have set a new record for calculating digits of pi: 62.8 trillion decimals. The new record is enabled by a supercomputer running a specialized algorithm.
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Does the sequence 123456789 appear in pi?

The string 123456789 did not occur in the first 200000000 digits of pi after position 0. (Sorry! Don't give up, Pi contains lots of other cool strings.)
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Why is 3.14 Important?

It's the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter—a number just a little bit bigger than three. The constant π helps us understand our universe with greater clarity. The definition of π inspired a new notion of the measurement of angles, a new unit of measurement.
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Who invented 0?

"Zero and its operation are first defined by [Hindu astronomer and mathematician] Brahmagupta in 628," said Gobets. He developed a symbol for zero: a dot underneath numbers.
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Do we need pi?

In fact, pi is useful for describing everything from the way light and sound waves ripple to the 'bendiness' of rivers, and it even crops up in calculations where circles are nowhere to be seen, such as Euler's Identity—a probability formula that has been described as the "most beautiful" in mathematics.
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