It's really big. Really, really big.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
Now what does this mean to us?
One thing, it's me playing around with my formatting to put links in the middle of a blog post.
Next, proof that I'm not making this up. And also a warning that another boring math post is coming shortly.
So you don't have to read the entire article, but are welcome to if you want, here's some things to recognize about the nature of the number.
It's so big, if you were to write it out longhand, with each digit being the size of an atom, there's not enough matter in the universe to write it on. And we know it ends in a 7. We actually know a lot of the rightmost digits {500ish} and I suppose some people might be trying to figure out the gap between the right end and the starting point.
I'm still trying to get a handle on why Pi is such a big deal that somehow everything has to be forced into a Pi reference, no matter how stupid it sounds and how inaccurate it is regarding the nature of Pi.
A good portion of my readers know instantly when I mention Pi it has an infinite number of non repeating decimal places. One bizarre justification of the use of Pi is:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Gematrinator/status/945113939624562689/photo/1
Where now there's some significance attached to just the first 144 decimal places. The rest of infinity is insulted.
In an infinite number of decimal places you can get an infinite number of subtotals. So, now the question is why is the starting and ending point supposed to be the first 144 decimal places? Logic will say that the first has got to be there. So now, why end at the 144th?
How about because that just happened to work for the narrative? There are lots of irrational numbers. Probably something like an....infinite number of them. The square root of any number other than a perfect square has non repeating decimal places. Congratulations. You just changed 144 into Pi. And with an infinite supply of digits and infinite number of ways to justify a starting and ending point, you've proven my point that absolutely every single number can be changed into Pi in a gematria narrative.
Some just look superficially cooler than others. Maybe more accurately less stupid than cooler to people that really understand math beyond what they learned growing up, and forgot because you don't need Pi to figure out if the Wendy's cashier short changed you. You don't even need an infinite number of digits. We know about really big numbers like Graham's number. There's a lot of digits to play with there. Good luck figuring out the leftmost end.
It looks like Pi has gained this honored status because the first superficial gematria matches look "cool". That is, if you count changing a number immediately into another number as gematria. And the original definition of Pi relates to circles. You can't swing a dead lamprey on this planet without hitting a circle, somehow. Even Wollongong has circles in it's name....or does it? It depends on the font. And Pi also relates to ellipses, or ovals. Curved lines without being in circles. Hell, there's even a famous movie about the search for hidden Pi applications not about circles, Raiders of the Lost Arc.
Now get this. Dan was on the Gematrinator's live stream broadcast. Two big names in the gematria community. You can't swing a dead lamprey in a Dan narrative without hitting on a comment like, "That reminds me of <insert personal interpretation here>". Like the freemasons are constantly monitoring his every move. Derek is big on solar eclipses. Searching for the meaning about the death of his relative. Since Dan's always using personal events to look for gematria clues. And I have personally been placed on this planet to torture him as a paid disnformation agent (MUAHAHAHAHA!) I suggest that they do a sequel. Ellipse and eclipse are one letter different. "Ellipse" should remind Dan of "Eclipse". AND C AND L HAVE THE SAME REDUCTION VALUE!!! They should team up and figure out if Pi really doesn't mean CIRCLE.
And I'm in a generous mood. A good starting point to get over the mind numbing awesomeness of infinity is the nourishment during the research. Graham Cracker Pie Crust.
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