
A little boy wondered about pi. Why is this number so strange? Shouldn’t natural associations like the circumference to the diameter be whole numbers?
Then he thought, the hypotenuse of a isosceles right triangle is root two of one of the sides. They’re all wonky!
What’s wrong with our universe?
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