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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

1 in base pi would be 1/π, wouldn't it? Why 1?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    1 in base 10 isn’t 1/10 and in hexadecimal it’s not 1/16.

    Decimal integers in base pi are 1, 2, 3, 10.2201…, 11.2201…, 12.2201…, 20.2201… and so on.

    Basically: 10.2201… = 1 * pi^1 + 0 * pi^0 + 2 * pi^-1 + 2 * pi^-2 … which approaches 4 as you add digits.

    But 1 is just 1*pi^0

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