Why the hell do we need the first gorillion digits of pi or more fucking prime numbers? What a waste of time and money!

Why the hell do we need the first gorillion digits of pi or more fucking prime numbers? What a waste of time and money!

My primary school math teacher challenged us to memorize pi's decimals till the first zero.

I still remember them: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 (didn't Google)

We don't need more digits of pi than 3.14

People who obsess over that are just autists.

Prime numbers are another story though. Knowing big prime numbers is important because for security reasons, we want to construct long numbers which have reaaaally big primes as factors.

Obviously, right now we have enough prime big primes but in the future the primes that today are big will be too easy to find by big computers and the future algorithms of prime factorization, so mathematicians working in security will need bigger and bigger primes to construct bigger and bigger numbers.

So basically, we will always need new primes my man.

You'll be sorry when you're flying your rocket ship and it suddenly blows up because the programmer forgot to program in that extra digit of pi.

No device on earth needs more than 30 digits of pi, not even fucking LHC or the ISS. And we already know the first 30 digits.

>And we already know the first 30 digits.
I don't think so.
You need a circle of enormous radius to calculate that.
Best estimates are made from probes visiting Jupiter.
You need to make an estimate based on the sun's disk to have such accuracy.
Only problem is, you can only get so far.

>"no device on earth needs more than 125kb of RAM, guess we should stop there"

-bill gates, 1975

>You need a circle of enormous radius to calculate that.

lol

aaagh shit, i took the bait

>we need the first gorillion digits
What do you mean by "we", Peasant?