re: #99 EPR-radar

I’m a little curious about this. Atomic clocks are things which can be explained (e.g., how do they count what they need to count to make them work?).

But what is there to explain about pi? It just is.

Pi is computed to thousands (maybe nearly 100,000) digits. Some people pride themselves on memorizing pi to hundreds of digits. But the chairman told me that pi is the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. But I know this can’t be true because pi is a non repeating, non-terminating decimal. It is a irrational number (It can’t be reasoned with…). To measure pi to thousands of digits in that case would mean that you measured the diameter AND the circumeference of a circle to thousand upon thousands of digits, and nothing is that precise. Therefore, pi must be something else. There has to be some basis to calculate it to all those decimal places, but the professor was to lazy to explain.