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DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@nixCraft
That's wrong twice; first on pi's irrationality, and second that the digits ChatGPT is quoting rounds up the last digit.

The first few digits are 3.141592653589793 -- so GPT should have said 65358....

15 May at 20:55 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mathstodon.xyz
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gnaddrig

@dougmerritt @nixCraft But how was the poor thing to know that the last digit a calculator shows is not the last digit of pi. Don't be so harsh, the little bugger has only just begun learning about the big world...

15 May at 21:03 | Open on mastodon.social
DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@gnaddrig @nixCraft
Yeah, you're right. I should scratch it under the chin and give it a treat and encourage it to go on to better things.

Then it will sit up and beg for another encyclopedia or something.

15 May at 21:07 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Lรกszlรณ Kupcsik

@dougmerritt
Are you absolutely sure that 65359 does not occur somewhere down the line? :)
@nixCraft

15 May at 21:47 | Open on functional.cafe
DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@kupac
I have a marvelous proof that it never occurs -- but unfortunatly it won't fit in this margin, errr i mean, this post.

15 May at 21:55 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Potung Thul

@dougmerritt
@kupac

I'm boosting, not because of what you wrote, but because of that hilarious handle:
log ๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’ง log ๐Ÿ˜„

That is brilliant!

I'm going to go boost all the posts where that appears.
In other words, all your posts.
:)
(Not really. But thanks for making my day!)

#MathJokes

16 May at 0:46 | Open on toot.io
DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@potungthul @kupac
Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed that light bit of entertainment. ๐Ÿ˜€

"You're a gentleman and a scholar", as they apparently used to say.

I looked it up to make sure it didn't surprise me by having some negative twist: writingtips.org/a-gentleman-an

Edit: I see in your profile now "(Shamelessly stolen from
@dougmerritt )" -- any time you feel like it, you can add "with permission", although you don't have to if you don't want to.

16 May at 1:05 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
alexraffa :unverified:
DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@alexraffa @kupac @nixCraft
No, it is not certain, it's never been proven.

Most research mathematicians think it's likely, but that's not the same as certain, by any means.

16 May at 4:55 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
alexraffa :unverified:

@dougmerritt @kupac @nixCraft yes, it has not been proven, it's fun to think every numer is contained in pi somewhere .. ๐Ÿ‘

16 May at 5:03 | Open on mastodon.uno
Allen Morris

@alexraffa @kupac @dougmerritt @nixCraft I would assume that every (finite) sequence of numbers appears in PI an infinite number of times: the proof is left as an exercise.

16 May at 6:18 | Open on mastodon.nl
DougMerritt (log๐Ÿ˜… = ๐Ÿ’งlog๐Ÿ˜„)

@gam3 @alexraffa @kupac @nixCraft
Well, your wild guess is unhelpful, since it's a famous unsolved problem in mathematics.

As I already said.

The field of study where personal opinion is superior to provable facts is modern politics, not mathematics.

16 May at 6:27 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Evannakita

@dougmerritt @nixCraft Or if you give it a little more credit, perhaps it knows pi to 245962 decimal places!

15 May at 23:51 | Open on mastodon.online
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