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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who said Pi is infinite? If we take Pi as base unit, it is exactly 1. No fraction, perfectly round.

Now everything else requires an infinite precision.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure a base-Pi counting system would mean that Pi is π, not 1.

    You'd count π, 2π, 3π, 4π, and so on. It doesn't change reality, just the way you count and represent numbers.

    I might be off, but it's definitely not π = 1.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm confused, how is pi used as a unit? My understanding is that it's a number

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    1 is also a number, a number we chose by convention to be a base unit for all numbers. You can break down every number down to this unit.

    20 is 20 1s. 1.5 is 1 and a half 1.

    If we have Pi as a unit, circumference of a circle would be radius*2 of Pi units. But everything that doesn't involve Pi would be a fraction of Pi, e.g. a normal 1 is roughly 1/3 of Pi units, 314 is roughly 100 Pi units, etc. etc.

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