@dderigo@hostux.social2026-03-14 10:32:42
#PiDay
ln( 640320^3 744 )/(163)^0.5 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279...
till that last 9 it works, but then it continues with
72661...
rather than 50288... as Ο does. Nice hoax by Martin Gardner in 1975 [1]
![From: Gardner, M., 1975. Mathematical Games - Six sensational discoveries that somehow or another have escaped public attention. Scientific American 232 (4), 126-130. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0475-126
(first page freely accessible at https://www.jstor.org/stable/24949779)
"In number theory the most exciting discovery of the past year is that when the transcendental number e is raised to the power of Ο [pi] times [the square root of] 163, the result is an integer. The Indian maβ¦](https://hostux.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/227/047/263/896/131/original/f7997c69600eaae2.jpg)
