Eli5: How does pie have so many digits? Why was it created? What other use does it serve?

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Like, it’s just a number why is it SO specific? Other than circles I can’t think of a use that pie has. Why would we create something that only has one use (that I know of) that is almost always simplified?

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It wasn’t created. It was discovered and identified as an estimated metric of a given property. Specifically a representative formula of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. While it is considered a constant, the seeming infinite digits in its representation are an approximation.

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