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> Universal isn't a way we describe numbers. You meant to say dimensionless.

They probably really meant to say “universal”, since dimensionless values are a less interesting category that includes… well, every number. Pi shows up in math without having to parameterize anything, making it universal in a way that even physical constants of our universe aren’t.




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