How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (opens in new tab)

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10 pointsdrgvond10y ago1 comments

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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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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (opens in new tab)

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10 pointsdrgvond10y ago1 comments

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goerz10y ago

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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