TOKYO -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with Linus Media Group, creator of Linus Tech Tips and other influential technology-focused YouTubeTM channels, to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for the Most Accurate Value of Pi. A groundbreaking 300 trillion digits were calculated and have been officially verified and confirmed by Guinness World Records[1].

The record-smashing computation was enabled by a high-performance storage cluster comprising 2.2 petabytes (PB)[2] of 30.72 terabyte (TB) CM Series and 15.36 TB CD Series PCIe® NVMe™-based solid-state drives (SSDs) from KIOXIA. These SSDs were configured in a network-attached storage environment connected to a dual-CPU compute server and ran for nearly seven and a half months.

Pi (π) represents the mathematical constant expressing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its decimal representation extends infinitely without repeating. This new record significantly surpasses the previous official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS benchmark of 62 trillion digits by a factor of nearly five.

The record-setting achievement was documented in a feature video released by the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the project and revealing the final digit of the record-setting calculation: spoiler alert…the 300 trillionth digit of Pi is 5.