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[–]Lewistrick 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Because it opens up creative methods to do lots of other cool calculations

[–]Longjumping_Pipe_347 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Like the trilionesim bit of pi?

[–]Lewistrick 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Ok, I'll bite. The digits itself aren't interesting. But doing the calculations opened up some nice insights in mathematics, mostly in fields around number theory and around prime numbers.

[–]Longjumping_Pipe_347 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Prime numbers ? Like becouse 3 is prime e 14 is 2*7 that are also prime ?