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Even cooler, at 75 digits you can calculate the circumference of your mom

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Joke’s on you, I only needed 69 digits to calculate the circumference of your dad’s cock

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“Only” using 15 digits is still pretty insane

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You get that level of precision in a standard “double” floating point number. So that’s basically the normal level of precision you get without trying.

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Google suggests that excel uses 15. So even college students working on any old STEM degree are probably using 15 digits.

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At my last job I was bored so I wrote sql server functions to perform standard math operations on varchar(max) and used them to build factorial tables which I then used to iteratively calculate pi. I think I got up to around 100 digits before I got yelled at for bogging down the server and had to stop.

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Still, we can’t proof that PiPiPi^Pi is an integer or not, since we don’t know enough digits.

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It’s definitely not an integer seeing as it has a fractional component. Do you mean if it’s rational or not?

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No, we can’t proof if its an integer or not. If you can proof it, you are up for a great career in mathematics: https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/ist-pi-hoch-pi-hoch-pi-hoch-pi-eine-ganze-zahl/2203268

(Unfortunately only found this german article, but maybe translation works)

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Dope. I just memorized it to 50 digits. Good to know for my intents and purposes it doesn’t matter at all anyway.

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Hey, cheer up, it doesn’t matter for anyone’s intents and purposes.

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No no no. The error compounds every time you math so if you math a lot at 40 digits you might end up with like 30 digits of correct precision. Totally unacceptable. Literally unplayable.

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