• Flying Squid
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    175 months ago

    Maybe it knows something about pi we don’t.

    It’s infinite yet ends in a 9. It’s a great mystery.

      • @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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        85 months ago

        I saw someone post this a few days ago, and someone else quickly pointed out that it is incorrect. This time I’ll point out it is incorrect.

        In base-pi, pi would be represented as 10. The place value of the right-most digit would be pi^0, and the next digit is pi^1.

      • Flying Squid
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        25 months ago

        Mathematicians are weird enough that at least one of them has done calculations in base-pi.

        • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          25 months ago

          That’s pretty much what radians are. Well, they combine base pi with whatever base you’re using for the coefficients.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Hyperreal numbers go brrr.

      I’m kind of curious what ways exactly using this in place of actual pi would change/break geometry. Obviously, it wouldn’t become noticeable until you try to involve infinite structures.