Who	When	Value	log10 (-log10(precision))
Rhind Papyrus	1650 BCE	3.16	0.2
I Kings 7:23/Solomon	950 BCE	3	0.1
Archimedes	250 BCE	3.1418	0.6
van Ceulen	1600 A.D.	35 places	1.5
Shanks	1873	527 digits	2.7
Computer	1947	2000 digits	3.3
Chudnovsky	1989	1G digits	9.0
Takahashi	1999	206G digits	11.3

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No? It gets LONGER with time.

Amazing Digit Extraction Algorithm

1.   Bailey, Borwein, Plouffe, 1997
2.   Amazing "digit" Extraction Algorithm
3.   Base 16 (not base 10)
4.   Details here locally from here.