• Wugmeister
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    1872 months ago

    It works. Well, it works about as well as your average LLM

    • @Barbarian
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      2 months ago

      pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

      That’s a very interesting use of the word “ends”.

      • @[email protected]
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        TBF, if your goal is to generate the most valid sentence that directly answers the question, it’s only one minor abstract noun that’s broken here.

        Edit: I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a substantial drop in the probability of a digit being listed after the leading 9 (3.14159…), even, so it is “last” in a sense.

        Edit again: Man, Baader-Meinhof so hard. Somehow pi to 5 digits came up more than once in 24 hours, so yes.

      • Flying Squid
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        182 months ago

        Maybe it knows something about pi we don’t.

        It’s infinite yet ends in a 9. It’s a great mystery.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 months ago

            I saw someone post this a few days ago, and someone else quickly pointed out that it is incorrect. This time I’ll point out it is incorrect.

            In base-pi, pi would be represented as 10. The place value of the right-most digit would be pi^0, and the next digit is pi^1.

          • Flying Squid
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            22 months ago

            Mathematicians are weird enough that at least one of them has done calculations in base-pi.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              That’s pretty much what radians are. Well, they combine base pi with whatever base you’re using for the coefficients.

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          Hyperreal numbers go brrr.

          I’m kind of curious what ways exactly using this in place of actual pi would change/break geometry. Obviously, it wouldn’t become noticeable until you try to involve infinite structures.

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            There’s probably some finetuning at play for Amazon’s thing which makes it tend to always give a straight answer, instead of stepping outside of the box and doing something like correcting an implicit assumption.