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That's wrong twice; first on pi's irrationality, and second that the digits ChatGPT is quoting rounds up the last digit.
The first few digits are 3.141592653589793 -- so GPT should have said 65358....
@dougmerritt @nixCraft But how was the poor thing to know that the last digit a calculator shows is not the last digit of pi. Don't be so harsh, the little bugger has only just begun learning about the big world...
@dougmerritt
Are you absolutely sure that 65359 does not occur somewhere down the line? :)
@nixCraft
@kupac
I have a marvelous proof that it never occurs -- but unfortunatly it won't fit in this margin, errr i mean, this post.
I'm boosting, not because of what you wrote, but because of that hilarious handle:
log = log
That is brilliant!
I'm going to go boost all the posts where that appears.
In other words, all your posts.
:)
(Not really. But thanks for making my day!)
@potungthul @kupac
Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed that light bit of entertainment. 
"You're a gentleman and a scholar", as they apparently used to say.
I looked it up to make sure it didn't surprise me by having some negative twist: https://writingtips.org/a-gentleman-and-a-scholar/
Edit: I see in your profile now "(Shamelessly stolen from
@dougmerritt )" -- any time you feel like it, you can add "with permission", although you don't have to if you don't want to.
@potungthul @dougmerritt @kupac sorry, but what does that equation reference?
@thacuber2a03 @potungthul @kupac
It's just a light bit of humor riffing off of the algebraic identity log x^c = c log x, e.g. log 1000 = log 10^3 = 3 log 10
Humor explained doesn't tend to be funny; I take the blame for lack of funniness of the explanation. Or for the original for that matter.
@kupac @dougmerritt @nixCraft it certainly occurs somewhere...
@alexraffa @kupac @nixCraft
No, it is not certain, it's never been proven.
Most research mathematicians think it's likely, but that's not the same as certain, by any means.
@dougmerritt @kupac @nixCraft yes, it has not been proven, it's fun to think every numer is contained in pi somewhere .. 
@alexraffa @kupac @dougmerritt @nixCraft I would assume that every (finite) sequence of numbers appears in PI an infinite number of times: the proof is left as an exercise.
@gam3 @alexraffa @kupac @nixCraft
Well, your wild guess is unhelpful, since it's a famous unsolved problem in mathematics.
As I already said.
The field of study where personal opinion is superior to provable facts is modern politics, not mathematics.
@dougmerritt @nixCraft Or if you give it a little more credit, perhaps it knows pi to 245962 decimal places!
@nixCraft @dougmerritt it probably found an instance of a rounded pi somewhere and took the last digits of that. that would explain the rounding up, since it is the last digits of pi correctly rounded to 12 digits
@LambdaDuck @nixCraft
I'm sure you're right, but that won't stop me from complaining. :)
@dougmerritt @nixCraft yeah, it’s certainly no excuse, just a possible explanation