But why do we care?
What use, then, are the other 62.79 trillion digits?
What makes pi so fascinating?
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But it takes a long time after 500,000 terms, it produces only five correct decimal places of pi!
The first is the development and testing of supercomputers and new high-precision multiplication algorithms.
The second is the exploration of the very nature of pi.
Despite centuries of research, there are still fundamental unanswered questions about the way its digits behave.
But we hope there will be many mathematically interesting treasures within the numbers.
