[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

In “Contact”, the Carl Sagan book about first contact with aliens, it was suggested that hidden deep within mathematical constants there are messages or codes from the builders of this universe. So Arroway booked time on the supercomputers to go billions of digits deep into pi and other constants whose names escape me now to find the codes.