Pi-2

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pi-2

Title text: Had to hand-draw this one for all the symbols and my fingers nearly melted off.

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Transcript

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Why do you think tt appears in all these weird equations that have nothing to do with circles?

Does it?

Think of it like this: Suppose in ancient babylon, instead of getting weird about geometry, they got weird about infinite series.

They do the series 1/12+1/2 and they find it's tt% then they do the one that goes 1-1/3+1/5-1/7... and they find it's /4.

They keep fussing around and keep finding all these different series that all seem to share a factor in common. It's not a nice whole number - it's somewhere between 3 and 4, and it keeps popping up.

Eventually they work the number out to many digits. And then some dorkwad mathematician comes along and proves that the "infinite series factor is also a fundamental aspect of circles.

And then everyone's like, 'what?! What is tt doing in a circle?!

That's weird. I guess I think of constants as being about something then popping up elsewhere mysteriously. But actually, they're just... whatever it is they are.

God mathematics

I believe god is lazy and just picked half a dozen irrationals to recycle over and over.

Is spooky.

Votey Transcript

[Autogenerated transcript]

Everyone thinks of god as a physicist, but then how come piisn't exactly three?

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