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I have always disliked pi. Well, the 3.14 version. Ever since learning other number bases... http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/piba
by mtreis86 10y ago
I have always disliked pi. Well, the 3.14 version. Ever since learning other number bases... http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/pibases.html http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/...
- Synaesthesia 10y agoDecimal is so mainstream
- kej 10y agoOne advantage to the hexadecimal version is that you can compute [1] an arbitrary digit without finding all the digits before it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...
- mtreis86 10y agoI had not seen that before. I wonder if any other interesting numbers are better calculated in alternate bases. Thanks