M Ralph Susskind · @marasu66
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It amuses me that people spend time practicing to recite the transcendental number to hundreds of digits, or asking computers to compute billions of decimal digits, but only works with 16 significant figures. [jpl. nasa. gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need] jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/1

#pi #decimal #base10 #nasa #piday

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