• @jaybone
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    -111 months ago

    You are not wrong. I don’t see what this has to do with pi.

    • @n0m4n
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      411 months ago

      Assume that your length of measure is a string. You can ‘compass’ a circle with one end of the string at the center, and the other ens holding your marking device. Cut out your wheel, mark one point on the wheel for every revolution of the wheel, which is a circumference. You have introduced Pi as a constant.

      • @jaybone
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        011 months ago

        It would be multiples of the circumference. Not pi.

        • @n0m4n
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          10 months ago

          What is the formula for a circumference? That is where Pi enters in. If my base unit is a Pharaoh’s dong, and this is the wheel’s radius, a rotation will be 2Pi x (Tut’sDong)

          • @jaybone
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            211 months ago

            Pi is just a constant. Call it C.

            You can multiply C by the number of Tutankanmandong.

            Has nothing to do with if you measure with a wheel or a ruler or a string or 27 donkey penises.

            But yeah, if you really want, we can divide anything by pi. Or e. Or any other constant, pick one.

            • @n0m4n
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              110 months ago

              Of course we can, but if we decide to divide by Pi, can we also end up with an integer in ancient units of measure as is said in the article? A wheel makes sense. Some mythical aliens coming down from hundreds of light years is statistically very unlikely.

              • @jaybone
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                110 months ago

                You are one dumb motherfucker.

                • @n0m4n
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                  110 months ago

                  Sarcasm goes over your head, with the vroom of a Doppler shift.