HairyHarry@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So it is expected to be a last digit?
And what can be done with this knowledge?
I think there's proofs to show that won't happen. Don't ask me to find them or explain them, it's beyond my scope.
What I'm waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.
Ah, another Contact enjoyer.
Movie was pretty good. Book was excellent.
Can’t be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know
I mean if pi is infinite, wouldn’t that happen anyway at some point?
I don't think that's a given. It's just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.
That’s really interesting, and matches my completely groundless intuition. Just because it could happen, even on an infinite scale, doesn’t mean it would. That makes sense to me at least.
Pi by definition has no last digit, if it had one it would be possible to square the circle (even if it wouud require an absurd amount of precision)
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
Pi is transcendental. There is no last number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
How zen.