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People are always trying to calculate Pi to the furthest decimal point. Some guy just did it on a regular PC, and beat the previous record, taking 131 one days to do it. It takes over a terabyte of space to simply store the number. And he did it on a regular computer, compared to a supercomputer, which was used to calculate the first 2.6 trillion digits before he did it.
BUT.
In terms of real, practical use, anything over 41 digits is pointless. With the first 41 decimal places, you can calcuate the circumferance of the observable universe to the precision of the diameter of a single proton. Which is more precision than anyone is EVER going to need.
BUT.
In terms of real, practical use, anything over 41 digits is pointless. With the first 41 decimal places, you can calcuate the circumferance of the observable universe to the precision of the diameter of a single proton. Which is more precision than anyone is EVER going to need.