• Skua@kbin.earth
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    5 months ago

    “e”, or Euler’s number, is a constant used in maths because it has useful properties in logarithms and some other things. Basically just like pi except for logarithms instead of circles. Like pi, it’s an infinitely long series of non-repeating digits. The crime you have witnessed in the post is a shitload of mathematical operations applying e to e in various ways in order to get (very close to) pi. Like saying “I’m going to make 14 using only 2” and then saying (222)-2, except instead of 2 and 14 you’ve got e and pi

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      5 months ago

      Formatting messed up (on my client at least.) It’s 2^2^2, but it looks like (2^2)2 (without the parentheses, of course.)

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      5 months ago

      So it is not really approximating pi and there is no circle hiding?

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        5 months ago

        It’s approximating the value of the actual number pi, 3.14159 etc. It’s not doing anything with pi after that