| ▲ | nuancebydefault 16 hours ago | |
I would have expected more numbers originating from physics, like Reynolds number (bad example since it is not really constant though). The human-invented ones seem to be just a grasp of dozens man can come up with. i to the power of i is one I never heard of but is fascinating though! | ||
| ▲ | SOTGO 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
To prove something is transcendental we would need to know how to compute it exactly, and I’m struggling to see how that would come up frequently in a physics context. In physics most constants are not arbitrary real numbers derived from a formula, they’re a measured relationship, which sort of inherently can’t be proved to be transcendental | ||
| ▲ | longemen3000 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
some constants that may or may not be transcendental: - Percolation Thresholds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_threshold - Critical scalings in 3d: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universality_class#Ising_model | ||
| ▲ | cozzyd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yeah I'd expect Bessel function zeroes and such | ||