• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Maybe it knows something about pi we don’t.

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

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          6 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.

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            6 months ago

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

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        6 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.