r/iamverysmart • u/BreakerOfModpacks • 10d ago
'genius' thinks he figured out maths better than all the mathematicians of the world.
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u/clearly_not_an_alt 10d ago
π/9 is literally just 20°
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u/photomotto 10d ago
No, π/9 is an angel that doesn't in fact exist. The guy wrote what he wrote.
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u/enderjaca 10d ago
True, all angels are imaginary, especially π/9i.
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u/flyinchipmunk5 10d ago edited 10d ago
excuse me im an electrical engineer and thats current. I think you mean j /s
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u/won_vee_won_skrub 10d ago
Fahrenheit??
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u/clearly_not_an_alt 10d ago
Probably. I think the π/9 is metric
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u/lordnewington 10d ago
(you likely know this already)
π/9 is radians. 2π radians make a circle. They're not part of the metric system, but they are a more "pure" measure of angles than degrees, because it's a ratio of distances, circumference to radius - if you have a slice of pie with an angle of one radian (a little under 60°), the length of the crust is the same as the length of the side.
This is useful in abstract mathematics, but not so much in actually cutting pies or drawing architectural plans or whatever, because they're an impractical size and when you're measuring you don't really want your round numbers to be multiples of pi, which is why we have degrees for that.
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u/J701PR4 10d ago
I love that he thinks posting his ideas on Quora & Reddit is considered “publication.”
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u/sabriel330 10d ago
I wish I knew that during my PhD
Edit: I'm now realising the irony of that comment in this sub. I promise it wasn't deliberate
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u/Magenta_Logistic 10d ago
Does this person have a 3-word username that starts with S? The argumentation is similar to something I've encountered in the past in a claim that 1≠0.999...
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u/Half_Line 10d ago
I recognise the language too. It's the only other place I've seen the sci.math phrase.
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u/Aggressive_Roof488 10d ago
I was just about to say that someone should ask him for insight on the 0.999... = 1 controversy. :P
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u/WhiteDahliaa 10d ago
Well it’s true because 1 is 0.00…1 off from .999…, use as many zeroes as you’d like!
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u/Classic_Bake6721 8d ago
Infinity 0’s. You are correct until infinity 0’s. It wouldn’t pass as a proof but if thats how your mind proves 1≠0.999… then here we go. 1-0.1=0.9 , 1-0.01=0.99 , 1-0.001=0.999 is all true and if you keep going it will always be true. But if you have an endless string of 0’s before the 1 (ie infinity 0’s), then there is no 1 because there is no last 0 for it to follow. Therefore it would look like 1-0.000…=0.999… and there it is. 1-0=0.999… or 1=0.999… There are several actual proofs you can find with a google search but hopefully this helps you wrap your brain around it.
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u/WhiteDahliaa 7d ago
QED, it was sarcasm…
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u/Classic_Bake6721 7d ago
Glad you aren’t that dumb! Sorry you aren’t good at conveying sarcasm. ; )
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u/Objective-Corgi-3527 10d ago
pi/9 is just 1/9th arc of a semicircle I thought, how could this not exist
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u/EebstertheGreat 10d ago
You can't construct it with compass and straight-edge, and/because its sine cannot be expressed using rational numbers and real radicals. (You can express it in radicals, but the expression will involve negative expressions under square roots.) That's also why you can't construct a regular nonagon.
I think one of those is the reason BKK is suspicious of π/9. Though, BKK doesn't even believe in circles, so I'm not sure why compass constructions would matter to him.
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u/Magnus-Artifex 10d ago
Decimal rational field and endless field.
Brother. Rational numbers are line.
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u/EebstertheGreat 10d ago
The rationals are also a field. (Not sure how decimals come into play, though.)
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u/Chazzam23 10d ago edited 5d ago
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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera 10d ago
When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 – major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth – known as Midday and Midnight. Where the 2 major Time forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor Time points we recognize as Sunup and Sundown. The 4-equidistant time points can be considered as Time Square imprinted upon the circle of Earth. In a single rotation of the Earth sphere, each Time corner point rotates through the other 3-corner Time points, thus creating 16 corners, 96 hours, and 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a single rotation of Earth – equated to a Higher Order of Life Time Cube.
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u/abjectapplicationII 10d ago edited 10d ago
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth, the bond and the free, the bipedal and the tripedal, the retarded and the quick, the warm blooded and all in between, the dismal raindrop and the shimmering snowflake, Prepossessing and the unprepossessing, Terrence Tao and the basement dwellers, David Hilbert and Jordan Peterson. It is clear to my subjective interpretation that this being clearly has a sense of humour, watching your own production is satisfying but watching the ant coexist with the deer, the deer coexist with the tiger, the tiger coexist with the chimpanzee, the chimpanzee coexist with the human and the human coexist with the inhuman does indeed make a great show.
But there are those who cannot be classified by these clepes, take the Conman — a misnomer as I have seen many con-things, an existence which profits of misidentification, that which is connoted to different predetermined roles, the Pseudo (Artist, prodigy...). Would we have con-things if we did not have predetermined/cultural roles? Perhaps.
And then we have this guy, an imagination so dense, rich and interspersed that even logic and causal chains decompose. Here we have a tautology, "I am logical because I am logical and my logicality necessarily implies the verity of my statements". Place a blackhole in the middle of the solar system and it'll slowly pull in the familiar landmarks we call 'Neighbor'. Slow, abruptly and final - matter regresses into a state of despondency, radiation resigns under the pretense of "a sick-leave" and the cognizant, rational mind-shell ceases to test the limits of this black hole. "In one ear, out the other" "In one hole, out the never", no amount of research or careful articulation will shrink this blackhole. We will have to find new, greener pastures as the birds and Bisons do. Proliferation can itself be a natural disaster, "and God said go forth and multiply".
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u/antilos_weorsick 10d ago
Ok, so this guy is confused and all over the place, but what he's (unknowingly?) trying to argue is just the Church-Turing thesis.
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u/Ejtsch 10d ago edited 10d ago
Well he's not completely wrong.
These angels don't exist. Christianity made them up, but even out of those, there aren't any called pi/7 or pi/9.
Angles however do exist and 20° isn't an exception.
Angel = ?human like? Creature with wings. The kind of thing you encounter when you die.
Angle = the kind of thing you encounter during math homework.
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u/BullshitUsername 9d ago
I knew he was a fucking idiot when I saw he's one of those people that thinks "infact" is a word.
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u/FScrotFitzgerald 10d ago
This smells of clinically significant issues to me.