[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

Part of it, as others said, is simply prestige. Not all mathematics is done to directly solve some “real-world” problem.

It is also a way to test supercomputers.