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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    18 hours ago

    According to your reasoning, the Fibonacci numbers, or repeatedly applying a math operation to a number are infinite sources of information

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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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      Nah I replied to someone else with a similar thought. The Notorious Fibs sure I agree with you they are new information, similar to the primes but just adding +1 over an over again or even some repeating pattern doesn’t add new information beyond the initial pattern.