Cyclopathic
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Like base 8 or whatever. Could working it out in a different base give a definitive answer? I need to know.
Does Pi ever come out if it is worked out in different bases?
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Haitch
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Try base 3.141592
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Cyclopathic
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Come on, be serious. I could be on to something here.
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Cyclopathic
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It seems that to get a proper number with a proper ending for pi you just need to use some string. Get a bit of string that is the radius of a circle and then make it three times as long and put it around as much of the circle as it will reach. Then get another bit of string to fill in the gap and measure it and then add it to the length of the other bit of string. It's not as if somehow the string will be infinitely long so you should get a proper answer. Just be super careful laying the string around the circle so that it is really accurate.
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The standard proof, 2000 or 3000 years old or whatever- doesn't depend on base at all.
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Cyclopathic
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This explains that pi is an irrational number. It strikes me as highly irresponsible of us to be using an irrational number to work out all of our circles. Who knows what it will do next? I am very worried by this and hope that the scientists manage to rationalise pi very, very soon.
FLipping circles. Anyway, no such thing. No circle exists in the universe we live in apart from the mathematical ideal we can imagine.
oldfatfool
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Sorry Cyclopathic, but this has to be the dullest thread ever on CC.
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Cyclopathic
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I'm deeply wounded. Have you not even seen my other thread about prime numbers in different bases? That must be at least a contender. Just because I care about important things. I suspect that you are merely jealous and possibly a Nazi. Please understand that I am not being rude by calling you a Nazi, just being honest, which as everybody knows isn't rude. Pi is important. Would you rather I just talked about celebrity colonic irrigation or where Michael Jackson has been hiding for the last couple of years???Sorry Cyclopathic, but this has to be the dullest thread ever on CC.
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This is clearly bob. Circles are everywhere except where there are squares, oblongs or rhomboids. Ffs this is a bike forum and bikes are made up of loads of things that are circle shaped. I suggest you observe things in a more bette4r way and you will clearly then see that there are indeed loads of circles. Like the circles of my mind, for instance.
