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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Physical reality has a lot of little exceptions like that too. Compression is really strong until it buckles - totally different formula. Most materials compress when they freeze - but water expands. Forget turbulence, man. What's the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter? That's right, a silly nonsense number.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And another silly nonsense number we decided to call "E" keeps popping up all over the place in nature/ the universe, for no discernable reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

iirc, e and pi are actually somewhat related

edit: was curious about this so I went looking and found a stackexchange thread on the topic. It was Euler's identity and the gaussian integral I was thinking of that relates those two numbers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's e to you!