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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoEek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoI’m pretty sure a base-Pi counting system would mean that Pi is π, not 1. You’d count π, 2π, 3π, 4π, and so on. It doesn’t change reality, just the way you count and represent numbers. I might be off, but it’s definitely not π = 1.
minus-squarejanAkalilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoYou still think in 1-based system, Pi unit * Pi unit is Pi of Pi units or 3.14159… Pi units. Also, Pi unit / Pi unit is 1/Pi Pi units or 0.318309886183790… Pi units…
Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.
pi equals 10
Engineers be like:
I’m pretty sure a base-Pi counting system would mean that Pi is π, not 1.
You’d count π, 2π, 3π, 4π, and so on. It doesn’t change reality, just the way you count and represent numbers.
I might be off, but it’s definitely not π = 1.
You still think in 1-based system, Pi unit * Pi unit is Pi of Pi units or 3.14159… Pi units. Also, Pi unit / Pi unit is 1/Pi Pi units or 0.318309886183790… Pi units…