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		slyall on July 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) According to Wikipedia LIGO is detecting gravitation waves was small as 10^-22 metres.

stephencanon on July 3, 2022 [–]

Double represents values smaller than 10^-300. 10^-22 is no problem, so long as you don’t need more than about 16 digits after the first non-zero.

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