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They're probably the only things that "create" information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 month ago

As far as I see through context in science, anything is information. Matter. Energy. Numbers. Words. So an infinite number has to have infinite information, yeah?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

No. sqrt(2) is an irrational number characterized as the positive solution to x^2 - 2 = 0. It's described by a very small amount of data. Even its decimal expansion can be determined up to any precision by a simple algorithm.

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