In 2005, she recited the numbers of pi, the mathematical equation describing the proportions of a circle – but how many digits did she manage to remember?

2005年，她背诵了圆周率——描述圆的比例的数学方程式——但她设法记住了小数点后多少位数字？

Everyone should have access to the great works of the world, whether heavy (Shakespeare, “Moby-Dick”, pi to 1m places), or light (Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes, the “Kama Sutra”).

所有人都应该可以世界上的著作，不管是晦涩的（莎士比亚，“白鲸记”，圆周率记录到小数点后一百万位），还是轻松的（彼得潘，夏洛克·福尔摩斯，“爱经”）。

“After that a decimal point and two more zeros, ” he added.

“再后面是小数点，后面还有两个零，”他又说。

So if you have points like this, stick to writing the number.

所以如果你要小数点，请数字。

We've got some kids who (inaudible) kicked out of schools, who come in with a GPA that starts with a decimal point.

我们有一些被学校开除的孩子，他们的 GPA 是以小数点开头的。

When you say six, does that include the two-cent figures?

你说六位数，包括小数点后两位吗？

Just last year Google Cloud calculated it to 100 trillion digits.

就在去年，谷歌云算出了π小数点后 100 万亿位。

So that eighteen will go after the decimal point, or that dot.

那十八将出现在小数点后，也就是那个点之后。

Katherine did manage to calculate a few decimal points further than that hunk of metal.

Katherine 成功算出来了比那大块头机器还多几个小数点。

This means that the decimal point needs to hop over digits to the right until the 5 is in front of it. To do this, the decimal point hops over two numbers. Again, the number B is replaced by a 2.

这意味着小数点需要向右跳过数字，直到5在它前面。为此，小数点将跃过两个数字。同样，数字 B被2替换。

Over and over, year after year, Crampton measured to the tiniest degree - to eight decimal places the whorls and arcs and gentle curves of numberless Partula, compiling the results into fastidiously detailed tables.

年复一年，克兰普顿把数不清的柄眼蜗牛的螺层、弧度以及和缓的弯曲度一遍又一遍地测量到最精细的程度——到小数点后面8位，把结果编成了许多详详细细的表。

So, you have learned that in Python programming language you have 2 types of numbers, integers which are whole numbers like 10, they don't have a decimal point, and floating point numbers or floats.

所以，你已经了解到在 Python 编程语言中你有 2 种类型的数字，整数是整数，如 10，它们没有小数点，以及浮点数或浮点数。

The most precise atomic clocks today can accurately measure a second to more than 15 decimal places, and what makes them so precise is they tick 9 billion-something times per second.

今天最精确的原子钟可以精确地测量一秒到小数点后 15 位以上，它们如此精确的原因是每秒滴答 90 亿次。

That's kind of what makes it useful for writing fractions, kind of with nice things after the decimal place.

这就是为什么它对分数很有用，对小数点后的部分很好用。

He holds the European record for reciting Pi from memory to 22,514 digits in just over five hours.

他能够在短短5个小时之内记忆小数点后2万2514个数字，而这也保持着欧洲记录。

A miracle of precision map-making that measures the angles of the triangle to the third decimal place.

这一奇迹般精密的地图测量出的角度精确到小数点后第三位。

I asked you how many digits of the mathematical equation, pi, she could remember.

我问你，她能记住数学方程式——圆周率小数点后多少位数字。

And by the year 1400, it had been calculated to as far as ten decimal places.

到公元 1400 年，人们已经计算出小数点后第 10 位。

But for most scientific uses, you only need the first forty or so.

但一般的科学应用只需要小数点后约 40 位就行了。

Five more decimal places of precision on what a second is. - Right.

一秒是多少还要精确到小数点后五位。-对。