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> Pi, after all, is no fraction, but its handy to keep around anyway.

You actually only need a surprisingly small amount of decimals of pi to calculate the circumference of the visible universe (just about the largest circle you can possibly have) to the accuracy of a single proton (just about the smallest scale you can realistically want to measure).

I think it was about 50 decimals or so.

Take that, crazy hundreds-of-decimals-of-pi memorizing people! ;-)



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