[ELI5] What’s the benefit of calculating Pi to now 62.8 trillion digits?

Question

[ELI5] What’s the benefit of calculating Pi to now 62.8 trillion digits?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

The practical benefits of having more digits of pi are negligible. The real benefit is in testing hardware and algorithms.

The largest possible impact would be if we calculated the next digits and found that they began to repeat. This would fundamentally undermine a fair bit of maths and lead to rapid innovation on topics/theorems that many consider “solved”.