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after you pi (quokk.au)

submitted 10 hours ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] kender242@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Tau has entered the chat.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 hours ago

An irrational decision.

[-] madjo@piefed.social 13 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 points 7 hours ago

Why do they have sidewalks in Numbertown?

[-] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Could anyone explain this joke plz?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 7 hours ago

π has an infinite amount of decimals.

[+] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone -7 points 6 hours ago

We asume

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

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 1 points 3 hours 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.