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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 19 days ago

Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information.

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Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 19 days ago

They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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How you express something doesn’t change the amount of information is contained in the message.

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