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Irrational numbers are an infinite source of information.

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They’re probably the only things that “create” information in the sense that you can always grab another slice. Thank you delicious pi!

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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As far as I see through context in science, anything is information. Matter. Energy. Numbers. Words. So an infinite number has to have infinite information, yeah?

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No. sqrt(2) is an irrational number characterized as the positive solution to x^2 - 2 = 0. It’s described by a very small amount of data. Even its decimal expansion can be determined up to any precision by a simple algorithm.

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