[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 10:51 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > Looks correct but NASA doesn't use more than 15 digits for
> > calculations within the solar system, the biggest error at that
> > distance is the width of one's little finger.
> > 
> > They do say that we only need 37 decimal places to encompass the
> > entire universe (estimated to be 46 billion light years) to slice
> > an hydrogen atom into two at that distance.
> 
> The test was done on VMS Alpha so with no
> /FLOAT qualifier the first result was a G-float
> and the second result a pair of G-float.

My point was that nobody needs to calculate billions of decimal places
for Pi. 15 places is more than though. And if we ever make it outside
the Solar system, 37 places is more than enough. 

I tire of hearing about people calculating Pi to billions of digits.
What good does that do? 
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