Comment on Pi squared is nearly 10Comments−olooney2moI like the 4-5-6 theorem: pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6 Well, to five decimal places, anyway. Some other good ones: e^pi - pi = 20 sqrt(2) ln pi = phi There are also famous "almost integers" such as this one discovered by Ramanujan: e^(pi sqrt(163)) Which is an integer to 12 decimal places.Edit: I just remembered I have public JupyterLite notebooks for both of these:https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=fake_ma...https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=heegner...−vitriol832mothe Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number−exochrono2moWikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.−olooney2moStigler's Law of Eponymy strikes again!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy−Y_Y2mo(e^pi - pi)/pi^4 ~= i^i−dylan6042moWhich is an integer to 12 decimal placesthis isn't something I was expecting to read today. I guess this works with weak types? /s−sli2moThat's why the time is Almost<T> instead of just T.
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I like the 4-5-6 theorem:
Well, to five decimal places, anyway. Some other good ones: There are also famous "almost integers" such as this one discovered by Ramanujan: Which is an integer to 12 decimal places.Edit: I just remembered I have public JupyterLite notebooks for both of these:
https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=fake_ma...
https://notebooks.oranlooney.com/lab/index.html?path=heegner...
the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number
Wikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.
Stigler's Law of Eponymy strikes again!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
(e^pi - pi)/pi^4 ~= i^i
this isn't something I was expecting to read today. I guess this works with weak types? /s
That's why the time is Almost<T> instead of just T.