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A little mathematics joke on PI day (3/14/2024)
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A little mathematics joke on PI day (3/14/2024)
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?!
They’re just being silly, man. That’s literally the joke.
What is wrong with you is that you’re not realizing that your niche knowledge is not common knowledge.
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)
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.
iirc it can potentially make sense in the event that our universe turns out to be simulated and subject to floating point errors.
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.