Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first 1000 Digits of Pi

Re:Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first... by jerf on Thursday September 13, 2012 @03:48PM (#4518183)

"One could sort of satisfy naturalethic's wish by choosing a numeral system with pi as basis. Then pi would have digit representation '1' in this system."

I'm pretty sure pi comes out to 10 base pi, not 1 base pi.

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Re:Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first... by blacksmythe on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:32PM (#4519916)

Numeral systems are not restricted to the set (base N).

"a numeral system with pi as basis" could be (base pi)pi, where pi =-> '1' and pipi -> '10' and unity -> '0.1'.

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Re:Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first... by jerf on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:20PM (#4525007)

I'd refer you back to philh's answer. You can do that and it isn't "wrong", but it is surprisingly uninteresting, as compared to a discussion of irrational or negative or imaginary bases.

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Re:Pi in the Sky, Artists Fill the SF Bay Area With w/ first... by anonymouz on Thursday September 13, 2012 @04:24PM (#4518395)

Ah, right, of course! Still, I think this is the closest possible to the wish the OP had.

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