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Comment by TeMPOraL

1 year ago

You can also define it as `3.14159...` just because. Obviously, a π definition entirely divorced from geometry becomes irrelevant to it - instead, in geometry, you'd still use π = circumference/diameter, or π = whatever(cos), and those values would happen to be the same as a non-geometric π, but only if the geometric π is the one from Euclidean geometry.

> You can also define it as `3.14159...` just because.

That's not a rigorous definition, though, because it doesn't tell you what those "..." expand to.