Comment by adityaathalye

4 months ago

IDK why, but this factoid blowing my mind right now.

One of the ways to broadcast evidence of Math + Computing power could be to calculate this constant to an absurd-enough precision and have SETI (or someone) send the digits out into space.

Edit: in the sense that, we know how to encode a large set of primes in a single transcendental number, and by the way, here it is.