Comment by satvikpendem
1 year ago
Why is it more interesting? Is it just more interesting because we use such bases, or can it be interesting inherently? That is the question that is being asked, and why some say it's merely a coincidence.
1 year ago
Why is it more interesting? Is it just more interesting because we use such bases, or can it be interesting inherently? That is the question that is being asked, and why some say it's merely a coincidence.
Well every number is the product of another number and some coefficient. If it’s a nice clean number then that implies it could be the result of some scaling unit conversion. But that should be sort of apparent. And it’s not super interesting if true.
If a number is another number squared then that implies some sort of mechanistic relationship. Especially when the number is pi, which suggests there’s a geometric intuition to understanding the definition.
In other bases, it does not actually imply much, even if it were squared. Maybe it really does make sense if it existed in base 10 but I cannot see much if it were part of other bases.