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I love it but I do not understand
"e", or Euler's number, is a constant used in maths because it has useful properties in logarithms and some other things. Basically just like pi except for logarithms instead of circles. Like pi, it's an infinitely long series of non-repeating digits. The crime you have witnessed in the post is a shitload of mathematical operations applying e to e in various ways in order to get (very close to) pi. Like saying "I'm going to make 14 using only 2" and then saying (2^2^2)-2, except instead of 2 and 14 you've got e and pi
Formatting messed up (on my client at least.) It's
2^2^2, but it looks like(2^2)2(without the parentheses, of course.)That was the intention, yes. Thanks
So it is not really approximating pi and there is no circle hiding?
It's approximating the value of the actual number pi, 3.14159 etc. It's not doing anything with pi after that
Donno if it's part of the joke but there is a beautiful equation:
So once you allow yourself to use i and log and stuff, you get a nice and simple equation
They're also doing some shenanigans with the variable of integration. I bet it would look a lot more palatable if they were changed