Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures.

We currently know more than 105 trillion digits of pi, thanks to a computer company that crunched the number for 75 days. But after that, pi's decimal places are a complete mystery to us. You may like ...

The number, dubbed M136279841, has 41,024,320 decimal digits, which beats out the previous record by 16 million digits, according to a statement released by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime ...

QBASIC at the time could be run in double-precision or single-precision mode (basically, the number of digits after a decimal point). Using 3.1415926 instead of 3.14159 caused serious problems ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. So, the number \(5.743\) is said to have 3 decimal places. The number \(5.1492\) has four decimal places, while \(4. ...

NASA uses 15 decimal places and by counting the 3, you have a total of 16 digits. And that is more than enough. NASA’s Marc Rayman, who was the chief engineer on the Dawn mission, has revealed ...

Largest prime number ever found spans 41 million digits, sets new world record. ... The largest known prime number now is 2136,279,841-1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits.

The number he found, given the unstimulating name M136279841, is one of those figures so outlandishly large that it doesn’t sound real. It has 41,024,320 decimal digits.If someone read off the ...

For the most common key, the serialized GTIN-96—or SGTIN-96—those 96 bits contain some simple reader instructions, followed by the GTIN (13 decimal digits without its bar-code check digit, which is ...