Kate O'Neill

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the digits of pi are not interesting. As far as anyone knows, they’re as good as random. Pi itself is interesting, to be sure. But pi is not its digits; it is merely specified by its digits, in the same way the Eiffel Tower is specified by the longitude and latitude 48.8586° N, 2.2942° E. Add as many decimal places to those numbers as you want, and they still won’t tell you what makes the Eiffel Tower the Eiffel Tower.
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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