How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?(jpl.nasa.gov)

10 points by drgvond 10 years ago | 1 comment

goerz 10 years 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

goerz 10 years 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