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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"e", or Euler's number, is a constant used in maths because it has useful properties in logarithms and some other things. Basically just like pi except for logarithms instead of circles. Like pi, it's an infinitely long series of non-repeating digits. The crime you have witnessed in the post is a shitload of mathematical operations applying e to e in various ways in order to get (very close to) pi. Like saying "I'm going to make 14 using only 2" and then saying (2^2^2)-2, except instead of 2 and 14 you've got e and pi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So it is not really approximating pi and there is no circle hiding?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's approximating the value of the actual number pi, 3.14159 etc. It's not doing anything with pi after that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Formatting messed up (on my client at least.) It's 2^2^2, but it looks like (2^2)2 (without the parentheses, of course.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That was the intention, yes. Thanks