visualizing pi

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pi can be estimated by dividing the circumference of any circle by its diameter.

  There’s something about the word “estimated” in here that I find really funny

  It’s like using C as a “rough approximation” of the speed of light

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We know what the exact value of c is because we set it to a specific value and derive the meter from it. We can’t do that with pi, so “estimate” it is.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We define Pi as the ratio of a circumference to diameter in the same way

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it a trillion or 6.4 billion digits?

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  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This says 62 trillion in 2021 livescience.com/record-number-of-pi-digits.html

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are there non-base 10 numbering systems in which pi is not infinite or repeats?

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Base pi

    No integer base

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If pi were rational in one integer base, it would be rational in all integer bases, no?

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• reflectedodds@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do we compute pi?

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🧮

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it bothers me that the diagram of the pyramid, claiming to show the height, is not along its height at all

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