ELI5: How does calculator know and use pi if even super computers can't know all the digits. Does it use like first 100 digits?

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  • In order to be standards-compliant, computer math libraries need to have a lot more digits of pi than should be strictly necessary. Accurately calculating sine in the upper reaches of double precision floats requires computer to have a table of about 100 digits of pi (or rather pi/2 for technically reasons) and 500 digits of 2/pi - here is an example.

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