• YTG123
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      4 months ago

      Perhaps you can encode them as computation (i.e. a function of arbitrary precision)

      • @Magnetar@feddit.de
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        14 months ago

        Hard to do as those functions are often limits and need infinite function applications. I’m telling you, math.PI is a finite lie!

    • @smeg@feddit.uk
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      64 months ago

      Do we even have a good way of encoding them in real life without computers?

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      May I propose a dedicated circuit (analog because you can only ever approximate their value) that stores and returns transcendental/irrational numbers exclusively? We can just assume they’re going to be whatever value we need whenever we need them.

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          I mean, every irrational number used in computation is reliable to a certain level of precision. Just because the current (heh) methods aren’t precise enough doesn’t mean they’ll never be.

          • @anton
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            You can always increase the precision of a computation, analog signals are limited by quantum physics.