Many works and many research about irrationality of $\pi$ appear every year for predicting more digits for the tanscendental number which is $\pi$, The question that made me confused is :Why mathematicians attempt to find more digits for $\pi$ since it has no last digit ?
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2Possible duplicate of https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/277076/what-is-gained-by-computing-additional-digits-of-pi and https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/73316/do-we-need-the-digits-of-pi – lhf Jul 09 '18 at 00:31
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5Does this answer your question? Do We Need the Digits of $\pi$? – Mar 17 '20 at 19:37
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Several reasons.
It's suspected but not known that $\pi$ is a normal number. Many digits allow for statistical tests.
The decimal digit expansion of $\pi$ is used to test new computer hardware and software. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_PI .
Plain curiousity. Find youe birthday in $\pi$.
Because we can. Here are the first million digits.
Here's how $\pi$ starts in base $12$:
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