My pi day fact for software devs - in base 16 you can compute the n-th digit of pi without computing any prior digits. Not true in base 10.
Picking a nit here: in fact you can, it's just more effort than in hex. http://bellard.org/pi/pi_n2/pi_n2.html …
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Yeah I guess my point was it's hella more efficient.
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One could say "the same amount of work as computing all the digits, but without actually remembering them." Your point stands, ofc.
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although now I wonder when it literally would become hella more efficient if hella was the prefix for 10^27
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If you propose that to SI, I'll support it;
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Proposal has been around for a while - google understands it https://www.facebook.com/The-Official-Petition-to-Establish-Hella-as-the-SI-Prefix-for-1027-277479937276/ …pic.twitter.com/JcW0HtMd1n
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Mind blown!
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