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==Transcript== :[Autogenerated transcript] :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.
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