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The context you omitted explains what they meant by "largest known digit", but I guess you were trying to be funny?

> The largest known digit of Pi is 2, at position 202,112,290,000,000 (two hundred two trillion, one hundred twelve billion, two hundred ninety million).




But the digit 9 is larger than the digit 2, and the first 202 trillion digits of Pi aren't made up of just 0, 1, and 2??? Are you trying to be funny?


It's bad wording. Not largest in magnitude, actually rather the factor of the smallest power of ten in the Digital expansion of the number

Or, "rightmost known digit of pi after the decimal"


It’s just stating the last number of pi they found.




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