YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO THIS WHOLE TIME!

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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 74 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I feel like this is not so much a meme as just a thing that is wrong.

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 48 pts · 2y
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Sadly, this is so far over my head that I have to accept it as truth, spread the word with authority, and found a religion based on it

Solely_a_Catt@programming.dev · 55 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This "proof" is based on a bug in Casio calculators (tested it on the fx-991EX classwitz, got it there too)

A try to explain it is in this video by Matt Parker. Are exactly the same numbers

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

It's not a bug, it's a feature

pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 25 pts · 2y (4 replies)

It's just an equation that gives you the first few digits of pi if you treat pi as a variable.

But, pi isn't a variable, so it's not a real equation.

xor@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 3 pts · 2y

pi is being treated as if it's some value that it's not in the first equation

That's a variable. The value of 'pi' is dependent on the rest of the equation.

If you treat it as a variable, the math gives you 3.1415926536.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Ahhh, gotcha! Thanks for the info :)

dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

As a programmer, I know what a variable is. Therefore, now this all makes sense to me.

DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 2y

Maybe I am also too dumb, but isn't the issue that the first equation is just wrong? It assumes that pi only equals 3.141592654

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Pi = pi/1

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

So P=p i imagine

rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

try this javascript snippet: (245850922/78256779)==Math.PI
source: some old paper that i can't find anymore, unfortunately author got burned at the stake

renzev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Try 0.1 * 3 for a real surprise