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

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 175 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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".

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

It's like how they called the fourth Friday the 13th movie "The Final Chapter".

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

The Rolling Stones doing their final concert for about a hundred and fifty years now.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

True but I think the Fast & the Furious franchise has a better shot at giving Pi a run for it's money.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 29 points 11 months ago

In other words, it doesn't work.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Maybe it knows something about pi we don't.

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

[-] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pi is 10 in base-pi

EDIT: 10, not 1

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 8 points 11 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.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Indeed. 10 is pi in base-pi

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago

The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42... +9.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

I mean, it depends on what you're doing. Supervision always required, though.

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