Moose wrties:
<<The point is that "last significant digit" for any actual use will not occupy
a computer for long at all.
Oh, in that context not long at all. Thirty-seven digits would allow enough
precision it inscribe a circle as large as the known universe approximately to
within the accuracy of the width of a proton. :-))
Is there a pattern in pi after the quadrillionth digit? Dunno, Mike
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