But if high school science insight seems to shoot down a popular math article, it's probably right. Popular articles on technical subjects (all subjects?) simply aren't very good and trivia involving digits in base-10 is exactly the sort of thing that the popular press loves to fawn over.

I think that's what the original commenter was getting at: it's not that the actual discovery is suspect, it's that the article presenting it was—even though the discovery itself is interesting.