How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
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For NASA's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, they use Pi to 15 decimals places.
3 May 2016 Edit: 10 May 2021
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