With no circles as inspiration, would pi have eventually been discovered, for example?
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Minecraft characters can rotate in any direction, can't they? So they'd have circles, at least.
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Yeah, but they'd have no real way of measuring the circle they're rotating in.
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Perhaps their circles would be like the ones made with Manhattan distance. In fact, for them, pi and circles might not be developed until something like calculus, as they make Manhattan-circles using smaller and smaller cubes, approaching a certain value.
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But what else would e to the i times some constant equal negative one?
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i wonder if aliens look at us and wonder how we developed in a world of mere fractals
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