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.
Pi squared is nearly 10
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#12As 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.
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#13I 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...
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.
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#14If you don't unblock scripts from cdn.jsdelivr.net.cdn.cloudflare.net, the math code won't work.
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#15I 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...
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.
You're such an evil person :D
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#16I 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...
Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap.
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#17The 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.
pi's prevalence instead of tau is one of the strongest indicators that we live in a suboptimal timeline.
Then, convert the digits of pi to text to find how to achieve interdimensional travel to reach the optimal timeline.
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#18I like the 4-5-6 theorem:
pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6
e^pi - pi = 20
sqrt(2) ln pi = phi
e^(pi sqrt(163))
Edit: I just remembered I have public JupyterLite notebooks for both of these:
https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=fake_ma...
https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=heegner...
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#19need a countdown for when it gets there