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You Can Count on Pi
On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does not go on forever?
One day you meet a clever Homo sapiens who says, “You're working too hard!” They have a new system with just 10 symbols, written as 0 to 9, which can represent any quantity of beans. The only problem with this base-10 system is that when you divide the circumference of a circle by the diameter, you have to keep moving to the right forever, because there's always a remainder: 3.141592653589793238… We can find the binary values using a similar recipe, but instead of dividing by 2, this time we multiply by 2.
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