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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by ddxxdd on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:13PM (#26556717)
>pi has an infinite number of digits, so all of the energy in the universe can't possibly be enough to compute it.

If the universe is also infinite, then you could calculate Pi with X% of the universe's energy, where X is an arbitrarily small positive number.

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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by simiones on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @06:15AM (#26565375)
If the universe is infinite, you could compute all of the digits of Pi in finite time by using an infinite amount of parallel computers, true. But computing a percentage of an infinite number (total energy in the universe) doesn't make sense.
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