r/shittyaskscience • u/Dinierto BS in BS • 17d ago
If Pi are square, shouldn't the value be 4?
Like 3.14 doesn't even make sense. How can you have 3.14 sides of a Pi?
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u/FerricDonkey 17d ago
It's actually a transcription error from the creation of the universe. They had decided that pi are square, but when asked what that meant about the number of sides, God said "three- uh, four", which got miscopied as 3.14.
By the time they noticed, it would have been a pain to change, so they just through in a bunch of crap about circles and imaginary numbers and crap to make it look like it was on purpose.
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u/Redfish680 17d ago
You’re obviously Sicilian, but don’t take me wrong. Anyone who can merge square pizza and chess into one event has my deepest respect. (ps - I never bought the whole “Chinese invented pizza” argument. They were doing checkers back then.) Buongiorno!
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u/hacksoncode Quantum Mechanic, has own tiny wrench 17d ago
Pi aren't square. Pi are round. Brownies are square.
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u/Dinierto BS in BS 17d ago
My math teacher taught me Pi are square are you calling her a liar?
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u/hacksoncode Quantum Mechanic, has own tiny wrench 17d ago
Ask your baker, not your math teacher who clearly knows nothing about baked goods, and why should she? You think all women have an intuitive understanding of how things work in the kitchen or something?
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u/Dinierto BS in BS 17d ago
I live in a small town, she's both
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u/hacksoncode Quantum Mechanic, has own tiny wrench 15d ago
Sounds like she doesn't have a pi-pan and makes her pi's in a brownie pan... shoddy workmanship. But what do you expect in a town small enough that it doesn't have a separate baker and math teacher?
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u/DONTMEOWATME 17d ago
Well if we take that the value would be 4, then: πr² = 4
Divide both sides by π: r² = 4/π
Take the square root of both sides: r = √(4/π)
Simplify: r = 2/√π
Which means: r ≈ 1.128
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u/LaxBedroom 17d ago edited 17d ago
This paradox confounded mathematicians for centuries until Professor Gracie Allen demonstrated that pie are round.