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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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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 32 points 1 month ago

Is it actually information? I can give you the number two, but it's not useful information until I also tell you which digit is significant and what the number means. Communicating information is still limited by the speed of light.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Situationally, yes. "I want the next digit of pi" is information in that sense of the word. It's not a particularly useful piece of information unless you're building something that requires a circle with a circumferential precision larger than the width of our entire universe.

[-] josephmbasile@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

How many digits of Pi would you have to read for you to be able to reconstruct all of the information in the Universe up to this moment?

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

None, because the digits of π have absolutely nothing to do with the universe.

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