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A little mathematics joke on PI day (3/14/2024)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc it can potentially make sense in the event that our universe turns out to be simulated and subject to floating point errors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, pi arises purely from math, it doesn't depend on the universe. The number we call pi would still be an irrational number even if the universe is a simulation that uses a rational approximation of pi.