AMD Epyc chips help calculate Pi to 62.8 trillion digits, smashing the old record

Academic researchers from Switzerland claim they have computed Pi to 62.8 trillion digits using a pair of off-the-shelf AMD processors.

As per a machine translated version of the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden’s German announcement, the Swiss University claims to have beaten the previous record of 50 trillion digits set by Timothy Mullican last year. Moreover, it asserts that it has achieved this feat in a little over 108 days, making it over three times faster than Mullican’s record.

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