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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Engineers be like:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure a base-Pi counting system would mean that Pi is π, not 1.

You'd count π, 2π, 3π, 4π, and so on. It doesn't change reality, just the way you count and represent numbers.

I might be off, but it's definitely not π = 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You still think in 1-based system, Pi unit * Pi unit is Pi of Pi units or 3.14159.. Pi units. Also, Pi unit / Pi unit is 1/Pi Pi units or 0.318309886183790.. Pi units..