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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    24 hours ago

    Situationally, yes. “I want the next digit of pi” is information in that sense of the word. It’s not a particularly useful piece of information unless you’re building something that requires a circle with a circumferential precision larger than the width of our entire universe.

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      20 hours ago

      How many digits of Pi would you have to read for you to be able to reconstruct all of the information in the Universe up to this moment?

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        19 hours ago

        None, because the digits of π have absolutely nothing to do with the universe.