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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
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nasa.gov
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drgvond
on March 18, 2016
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goerz
on March 20, 2016
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Of course, the real reason they work with pi to exactly 15 decimal places is that they're doing numerics, and therefore use a full double precision constant for pi, i.e., the number of decimal places that can be stored in a 64 bit float
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