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There's a numberphile video on that I just watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltrPVPEwfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltrPVPEwfo I really don't like
by Houshalter 11y ago
There's a numberphile video on that I just watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltrPVPEwfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltrPVPEwfo
I really don't like this formula. The numbers grow absurdly huge really quickly, and the only way of finding A is brute force search (and there are multiple possible values, they just pick the smallest that works.)
It's like saying the number 0.235711131517... contains information about all the prime numbers. Well it does, but once you see how it's constructed it's not terribly interesting.
Anyway I think you are saying that the constants might have low kolmogorov complexity. That is, the constant could be compressed to many fewer bits of information.
That seems unlikely. There's no reason why constants can't be arbitrary or random. Perhaps there are many universes and each has a different constant.
And trying to fit an expression to them is impossible, because we only know them to a few digits. That's not anywhere near enough information, and any expression like that will almost certainly be overfit. But if you insist you could try RIES: http://mrob.com/pub/ries/ries.php?target=1836.15267389&rst= http://mrob.com/pub/ries/ries.php?target=1836.15267389&rst=
None of the formulas get out more characters than they put in, or even get more than a handful of digits. It's indistinguishable from a purely random number.