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TIL NASA calculated that you only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, so do you. Any common device can handle computation with numbers a lot larger than 8 bytes, using appropriate software. Hell, even Python can handle that pretty routinely.

Very large numbers are used routinely in cryptography.

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