What is Pi?

The mystery of pi has eluded us for ages, with conjecture after conjecture of it's origins and existence. Today I'm here to finally break it down.

Intelligence

First let's briefly go over intelligence, which is the processing of information and the relationships thereof for a given reason. However, before information or the relationships thereof can be processed, the information and relationships must be defined. Defining information gives us a reference point for our own intelligence. You can see that in language, I call what I believe to be a "dog" a "dog", but to someone else, it's a "perro", and not a dog at all. The same thing goes for math.

Measuring

We measure things to quantify them, and we do so using a defined reference point of a unit. We have many units to measure distance, mass, and volume. These units have been defined, and used so that we can have a universal reference point for quantifying a value. Our units, are what makes pi possible.

Conflicts of measuring, and Pi

Sometimes, our measurements are inadequate for a given quantification attempt, which causes us to create constants to keep that universal point of reference for a measurement. This is what has given birth to Pi.

Pi and dimensions

Pi relates to dimensions, so to keep it simple, I will explain it's relationship in 2 dimensions, however, this relationship is present in all dimensions.

Pi

For 2 dimensions, we see pi when trying to measure the area of a circle, but why? The reason is, we measure area in squares, and no amount of squares can fully quantify the area of a circle. So to measure the area of a circle, we start with the number of squares we can fully fit into that circle -- when the size of the sides of the squares are equal to the radius of that circle, the number is 3. Now, when using the base 10 numbering system(3.14159...), we reduce the size of the square, multiplying it by 1/10, and count how many of those squares we can fit into the circle (1), and continue to do so with exponentially smaller squares. This process never ends, as no amount of squares equals the volume of a circle. That is pi. If you can, you can see it as a circle divided by a square. Happy Pi Day!

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