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On this Pi Day, I want everyone to remember that the stupidest thing Carl Sagan ever wrote was at the very end of the novel Contact, where Ellie found a pattern in the base-11 representation of pi. 🧵

"The universe was made on purpose, the circle said. In whatever galaxy you happen to find yourself, you take the circumference of a circle, divide it by its diameter, measure closely enough, and uncover a miracle--another circle, drawn kilometers downstream of the decimal point."