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JPL answers the question: How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? > For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use
by cpeterso 5y ago
JPL answers the question: How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
> For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...
- crdrost 5y agoThat's not saying much as it appears to just be double precision, but yeah, rational approximations only save you one or two digits and after a certain point it’s more nerdy to just memorize pi.