kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PiDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiDay</span></a> is already over; however, here's an interesting and quite entertaining article explaining why <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> only uses a tiny fraction [sic*] of Pi's infinite decimal places.</p><p>Even for its most accurate calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses 3.141592653589793.</p><p><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many</span><span class="invisible">-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/</span></a></p><p>* I find it amusing that they really say “a tiny fraction” - because mathematically, a tiny fraction of an infinite number would still be an infinite number. 🙃</p>