Pi can be seen in real life (obviously not with full precision, but close enough). Simply make a 1 cm rod on a lathe and measure its circumference, and you’ll see it’s ~3.141 cm
The same goes for root 2. Simply measure the diagonal of a 1 cm square
Not sure where you’d see e in real life, though (excluding as the base of an exponential, because any exponential can be trivially rewritten with any base)
@glibg10b@Rugnjr I ran this past my (engineer) SO and, after grumbling at being nerd-sniped, he came up with something you could measure to derive e.
He said a capacitor filled through a resistor for a time unit equal to “RC” gives you a simple formula that solves for e.
I think I may have got that right? Most of this is gibberish to me, but he gesticulated wildly and held up random electronic things at me so I think he had something.
Pi can be seen in real life (obviously not with full precision, but close enough). Simply make a 1 cm rod on a lathe and measure its circumference, and you’ll see it’s ~3.141 cm
The same goes for root 2. Simply measure the diagonal of a 1 cm square
Not sure where you’d see e in real life, though (excluding as the base of an exponential, because any exponential can be trivially rewritten with any base)
@glibg10b @Rugnjr I ran this past my (engineer) SO and, after grumbling at being nerd-sniped, he came up with something you could measure to derive e.
He said a capacitor filled through a resistor for a time unit equal to “RC” gives you a simple formula that solves for e.
I think I may have got that right? Most of this is gibberish to me, but he gesticulated wildly and held up random electronic things at me so I think he had something.