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after you pi (quokk.au)

submitted 2 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago

An irrational decision.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Well now I’m going to end up counting “four, five, Sharon, seven”

[–] madjo@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

Especially because Sharon Six came from the right, they had the right of way.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

She's so afraid of Seven, she overlooks other dangers

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

Why do they have sidewalks in Numbertown?

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Tau has entered the chat.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

It's fine, they'll just be in queue position omega

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Could anyone explain this joke plz?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

π has an infinite amount of decimals.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So does every number:

6.000000....

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 4 points 2 months ago

Or 5.999... It's equal to 6 but it appears to have a much more impressive decimal expansion

[+] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone -8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We asume

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, the proof has been known since ~~ancient times~~ the 18th century!

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The proof is not that ancient. Pi was proven to be irrational in 1761, and proven to be transcendental in 1882.

For a long time the problem was known as "squaring the circle": Given a circle in a plane, construct a square with the same area using a compass and straightedge. This was a famous unsolved problem in mathematics from antiquity all the way through the renaissance.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the correction - misremembered that.

A slight clarification in return: the constructible numbers are a strict subset of the algebraic (i.e. non-transcendental) real numbers.

(The constructible numbers are those numbers resulting from the closure of the rational numbers under square roots.)

This means that although the proof of pi's transcendentality proved that squaring the circle is impossible, it could have been the case that pi was neither transcendental nor constructible. A simple example of such a number is the cube root of 2.

[–] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the info :)

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

sqrt 2, e and pi enter in a bar.........