mjburgess 20 hours ago

Well, it's pi parameterised by the distance metric, Pi(d)

You can parameterise it by other concerns if you wish, and other things follow. But as a matter of fact, this is how pi depends on the distance metric.

  • amelius 19 hours ago

    Yes, but we're looking at a specific set of distance metrics.

    It'd be interested in the set where Pi(d) is constant and equal to Pi.

    (disclaimer: IANAM and I haven't given it much thought)

    • frotaur 17 hours ago

      This is certainly an interesting question; however, it's probably very hard. This is because the 'set of all possible metrics of the 2d plane' is extremely large, and I am not sure if we have a good characterization for it.

      There are a bunch of very strange metrics, e.g. a metric for which d(x,x) = 0, d(x,y)=1, that is, all points are at a distance of 1 to each other (this satisfies all axioms).