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exochrono 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Pi squared is nearly 10

Wikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.

olooney 39 days ago [–]

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