[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?

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Answer 1

There’s really not a huge benefit to the result of the calculation, but the benefit lies in figuring out how to calculate it. Discovering new computational methods to calculate pi more and more accurately is the benefit to calculating that many digits.