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CustardFist@feddit.nl to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Have a nice PI day [OC]

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Have a nice PI day [OC]

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/12236757

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

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev
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    I’m not 100% sure what the last digit of pi is, but I’ve narrowed it down to 10 numbers.

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      If you express pi in binary you can narrow it down to just two!

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        Arguably, 0 can’t be the last digit since you can leave it out without changing the value of a number. So the last digit is 1.

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          Legend

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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          meaning it’s an even number

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        deleted by creator

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    I’d guess that the last digit is 2. Please feel free to prove me wrong

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      Your guess is “the last digit is 2”. This necessarily implies that your full guess is: “there exists a last digit, and that last digit is 2”. I’ll happily prove that wrong :)

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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrational

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        PI does get irrational sometimes. It do be what it is.

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          Same here. I’m not always rational myself. I don’t have the moral high ground to judge π in any meaningful way

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I would bet my left achilles tendon that its a 9. The vibe it gives off is odd number-ish

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        I like symmetry, so I’m hoping it’s a 3

        • Thalfon@sh.itjust.works
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          The last digit of pi is clearly the i, which would be equivalent to 19 after converting to base 10.

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            How is i equivalent to 19? It’s that a typo and you mean 9?

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              “i” should be 18 if we’re extending hexadecimal to enneadecimal.

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        Yeah, i get that pi is a very od number and two is like the most even number

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    Don’t do it, buddy! They may look like the last digits of Pi because of all those zeroes that follow, but it’s just a really long string of zeroes that starts up with random digits again after a while!

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    What’s wrong with me, why am I getting so annoyed that the other comments are acting like there’s actually a chance it’s right? Are they just being funny, or do they actually think the question “what’s the last digit of pi” makes sense? Even if they’re wrong, why should I care?!

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      They’re just being silly, man. That’s literally the joke.

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      What is wrong with you is that you’re not realizing that your niche knowledge is not common knowledge.

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        It’s not common knowledge that the digits of pi go on forever?

        (I think I’m asking this as a rhetorical question but I suppose I have to upgrade it to a genuine question)

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          It’s common knowledge, yes, but most people don’t care about differentiating between a humongously large number we are not capable of calculating vs an infinite number that can never be calculated even if we have a machine powerful enough to do it, because it’s not relevant to pretty much any day to day life.

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

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        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.

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    Happy Pi Day! Celebrate Circularity! Ride Bikes! Share Spherical Sonnets! Get around to doing things! Eat Round Food! 🍕🥧🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

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    There’s a 1 in 10 chance he’s right but also impossible to prove

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    Dope.

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