super.funk
As you guys obviously know, yesterday was pi day.
I wrote a little post about it on another forum i am active on and had to do a little research on pi to come up with enough facts to fill up an entire post.
anyways, my mathematics background is obviously not very impressive, and i stumbled upon some facts i didn't understand.
the one that sticks out in my mind the most is the fact that pi is a transcendental number.
what does this mean?
If you've done algebra before, then you've seen equations like ax^2+bx+c=0. A transcendental number can never be the solution to such equations where a, b, and c are intergers.
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