I’m confused, how is pi used as a unit? My understanding is that it’s a number
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janAkali@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Who said Pi is infinite? If we take Pi as base unit, it is exactly 1. No fraction, perfectly round.
Now everything else requires an infinite precision.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 10 months ago
nul9o9@lemmy.world 10 months ago
6π is an acceptable answer for finding the circumference of a circle with a radius of 3 units of something.
janAkali@lemmy.one 10 months ago
1 is also a number, a number we chose by convention to be a base unit for all numbers. You can break down every number down to this unit.
20 is 20 1s. 1.5 is 1 and a half 1.
If we have Pi as a unit, circumference of a circle would be radius*2 of Pi units. But everything that doesn’t involve Pi would be a fraction of Pi, e.g. a normal 1 is roughly 1/3 of Pi units, 314 is roughly 100 Pi units, etc. etc.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.
ansorca@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
pi equals 10
AlexSup21@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
Engineers be like:
otp@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure a base-Pi counting system would mean that Pi is π, not 1.
You’d count π, 2π, 3π, 4π, and so on. It doesn’t change reality, just the way you count and represent numbers.
I might be off, but it’s definitely not π = 1.
janAkali@lemmy.one 10 months ago
You still think in 1-based system, Pi unit * Pi unit is Pi of Pi units or 3.14159… Pi units. Also, Pi unit / Pi unit is 1/Pi Pi units or 0.318309886183790… Pi units.
*Numbers written with digits are 1-based numbers.