• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        how the fuck i didn’t realize that!!!

        Fuck,

        so 1 in base pi is still 1, but 10 is pi

        makes sense,

        1 =pi ^ 0

        10=pi^1

        100 = pi^2

        my intuition kept telling me that using an irrational base system would end up with all integers being irrational. didn’t realize how easy it is to prove it otherwise

        ie, I had a very bad conjecture and I gained better understanding why it was wrong

          • setsubyou@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            1 in base 10 isn’t 1/10 and in hexadecimal it’s not 1/16.

            Decimal integers in base pi are 1, 2, 3, 10.2201…, 11.2201…, 12.2201…, 20.2201… and so on.

            Basically: 10.2201… = 1 * pi^1 + 0 * pi^0 + 2 * pi^-1 + 2 * pi^-2 … which approaches 4 as you add digits.

            But 1 is just 1*pi^0