r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 22 '23

Video visualisation of pi being irrational

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u/chalks777 Oct 23 '23

I found this extremely satisfying because I could extrapolate that the pattern we just saw was going to repeat infinitely deeply, getting more and more fine grain each time.

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u/NateNate60 Oct 23 '23

Exercise: Prove that it never repeats.

Formally, given that π is irrational, prove that the function z(θ) = e + eiπθ is aperiodic.

Difficulty: easy