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Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3137/
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print(uuid())A moment of silence for all those who sacrificed themselves in the name of science
Actually, this isn’t useful, so we still let it be called “math”.
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The cursed number is pi. Everyone who tries to fully read it dies. This is why we shortened it to 3.14.
You can just use 3.
Meh close enoigh
I like 22/7
Sounds like those stupid Rationalist cult groups who spend their time coming up with AI fantasies, and claim some thought-experiments are so powerful they’ll ruin your mind - real immature stuff. Deserves to be lampooned like this.
If a number is long enough human won’t be able to perceive it all at once, so in fact there are only finite number of cases we need to check.
Human will run out of memory when reading the number, in fact.
Sure there’s quite a lot of them to choose from, but for instance USPS tracking numbers are 22-digit numbers.
Sounds like the seed of an SCP.
This is why they invented notation. Just to be safe
There really is an xkcd for everything.
