Besides, even on different SBCL implementations Pi has different values.
Different versions, perhaps? Science does not stay still, as a friend of mine said on a similar occasion.
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π is a constant, not a variable. If it were a variable you could take a derivative with respect to it, which you can't.
π is not unknown, just irrational, which means it can't be expressed in bases such as base-10. In base-π, π would 10, and 1 would be irrational, but that doesn't mean 1 is unknown.
>>14
You can imagine it as a procedure that can give arbitrary accuracy. Probably the best way to think about any ``infinite'' series, since it's pretty much the only way to construct one.
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Anonymous2013-01-04 23:49
>>15
"procedure that can give arbitrary accuracy" is a variable. It depends on "accuracy" value, which is also a variable.
>>16
The important part is that we can prove properties for all accuracies. And we can treat it as a ``constant'' if we analyze it by it's properties (which is the way you treat other constructs as well). I agree that it's not an actually expandable value.
I understand a variable just to mean that you can perform substitution on it. Here accuracy would be a variable of the procedure π(A), but the procedure itself is not a variable. Of course you can argue this, I'd like to see your definition of a variable.
Actually a fun idea to expand on procedures is that you could have different implementations that act like π(A). I guess you could think of 'π' as a standard, a group of properties it has to satisfy.
>>17
A rather ugly way in my opinion, asserting an ``infinite'' is not needed to get the same set of rules. The important bit is the rule of induction, which interestingly enough doesn't need to know a bound. I wouldn't take the step to claim that there is a boundless object.
Perhaps boundless is the wrong word, since a ring A>B>C>A would be without bounds and still finite.
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Anonymous2013-01-05 7:00
>>17 equivalence classes of the limits of infinite converging series
and they say tdavis is "crazy"...
>>14
It can be expressed. I propose a number system with base equal to circumference divided by the diameter radius of any circle. In that system, $\tau$ will be written as $10$, and $\pi$ will simply mean $\frac{\tau}{2}$.
>>26
Same here. It's hard to break the habit, though.
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Anonymous2013-01-05 22:13
Anyone who seriously cares about using τ instead of π is a fucking retard with too much time on their hands. It's a pointless idea, even more pointless than metric time or gradians. Remove yourself from the company of thinking people, faggots, because you are only wasting their time.
>>3
~ $ man 7 x86
No entry for x86 in section 7 of the manual
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Anonymous2013-01-06 0:39
some of the intelligent explanations of pi notwithstanding, this is some of the most retarded convos on the subject, at a cellular level.
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Anonymous2013-09-01 13:25
There was no spiraling, just an explosion of exposition and then suddenly you were supposed to be sympathizing with her. After that the story didn't develop practically anywhere during the route. Maybe that exposition dump had some biased effect on some people after the nothingness of common route, but either way it was terrible story development.
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Anonymous2013-09-01 14:56
What are these two talking about on such a fine day?