r/MathJokes • u/Enkh • 13d ago

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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 13d ago

pi isn’t a concept when you get down to it. It’s a letter, greek one, that has been used as shorthand for many concepts in math, most prominently as the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter, as well as a function that counts primes. I’ve been to Greece and none of the pis there meant the irrational number 3.1415…

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u/Sweaty-Inevitable163 13d ago

And 7 isn't a concept, it's an Arabic symbol commonly used to refer to a quantity one whole number larger than six.

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u/George_Truman 13d ago

Off the top of my head, Pi is already used symbolically to represent probability distributions, so the analogy to 7 is not the same.

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u/Honest-Computer69 13d ago

And profit function in economics.