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Pi square is nearly 10 (mihai.page)
olooney 51 minutes ago [-]
I like the 4-5-6 theorem:

    pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6
Well, to five decimal places, anyway. Some other good ones:

    e^pi - pi = 20

    sqrt(2) ln pi = phi
There are also famous "almost integers" such as this one discovered by Ramanujan:

    e^(pi sqrt(163))
Which is is almost an integer to 12 decimal places.
lifthrasiir 3 hours ago [-]
The second fact, pi^2 ~= g, is famous enough that it has a separate section in Wikipedia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence#Gravi...

yehoshuapw 3 hours ago [-]
dahart 42 minutes ago [-]
I don’t see pi^2 ~= g in there… did I miss it somewhere?
hnfong 2 hours ago [-]
renyicircle 3 hours ago [-]
My first thought was "well of course it is, since pi is a little larger than 3" but it was cool to see an actual derivation of how much pi squared differs from 10 as a nice, closed form series.
verzali 2 hours ago [-]
I remember discovering that pi x 10^7 is very close to the number of seconds in a year while at uni.

One of my tutors was convinced this had to be more than coincidence, but I always figured it was just chance and a nice but sometimes useful shortcut...

simondotau 14 seconds ago [-]
It cannot be anything but coincidence. While 365.25 days in a year is physics, the 1440 second day is an entirely arbitrary human construct.
tzs 2 hours ago [-]
You might be able to send someone down an amusing (to observers) rabbit hole of wrongness by telling them it is not exact because Earth’s orbit is not perfectly circular.
GTP 1 hours ago [-]
You're such an evil person :D
Hnrobert42 1 hours ago [-]
Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap.
leni536 2 hours ago [-]
This first became apparent to me when I got a slide rule. Pi is often marked on the various scales and an x^2 scale is often nearby the x scale.
awinter-py 47 minutes ago [-]
need a countdown for when it gets there
Dwedit 2 hours ago [-]
If you don't unblock scripts from cdn.jsdelivr.net.cdn.cloudflare.net, the math code won't work.
Lerc 2 hours ago [-]
I was a little disappointed that the upper range of gravity on earth only goes to 9.8337. Just a little more and there would have been somewhere on earth that was an exact match.

It would have been the ideal (if chilly) place to start a cult.

amelius 25 minutes ago [-]
Pi^0 is exactly 1.
skatedbear 8 minutes ago [-]
You could be on something there.
BrandoElFollito 2 hours ago [-]
As an ex-physicist, pi^2 is 10. Like g.

I get it that this is a nice calculation with the Zeta function and everything, but 3 and a small something squared will be near 10 so it is 10.

smitty1e 3 hours ago [-]
The author wants tau=2*pi, but in the Greek alphabet, tau has one vertical stroke, and pi has two.

So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement.

Oh, well.

Georgelemental 3 hours ago [-]
Tau is tau over 1, pi is tau over 2. See also https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-conflict_and_resist...
Razengan 2 hours ago [-]
pi's prevalence instead of tau is one of the strongest indicators that we live in a suboptimal timeline.
GTP 1 hours ago [-]
Then, convert the digits of pi to text to find how to achieve interdimensional travel to reach the optimal timeline.
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