Comment on suck it, math nerds

• h3ndrik@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was going to say the same. Also π isn’t infinite. Far from it. it’s not even bigger than 4. It’s representation in the decimal system is just so that it can’t be written there with a finite number of decimal places. But you could just write “π”. It’s short, concise and exact.

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can pi be expressed with a finite amount of digits in another number system?

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    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How about a pi based system, then pi is 1.

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      • mrsemi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • 33550336@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Possible, but then the diameter would be an irrational number

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    • Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think there’s any technical reason we can’t count in base pi

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pretty happy with being able to write integers in a finite number of digits. Wouldn’t want to give that up.

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      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well we need an integer base number system…

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure where you’re going with the decimal thing. Pi had infinite digits in any base because it’s irrational.

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    • h3ndrik@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought that was the joke in the comic? That we can’t know numbers exactly that have an infinite decimal expansion. That’d be true for some rational numbers like a third, if you change the basis of the numeral system it’d be different numbers. And irrational numbers too if you have a integer base. But I’d argue how we write down a number isn’t what determines ‘exactness’.

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• mrsemi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What if I count in base pi

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