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Does pi go on forever ? How do we know ?

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
It's irrational, and irrational things always seem to go on forever.
1pebbles · 56-60, F
@Harmonium1923 ex-hubby was irrational and a computer mathematician
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@Harmonium1923 pi is more than irrational, it’s transcendental.
Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
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Pi is infinite, lots of mathematical expressions to prove it. But I wish pie was infinite, that would be much more useful
@startingover23 The larger pie gets the less useful it is . More accurate but the accurate doesn't mean more useful
Because all decimal numbers go on forever, it’s just that we don’t write in all the zeroes…
@Evolved Unfortunately I'm not a mathematician so lack the ability to describe it exactly - if you look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrational it will give some details - irrational numbers have the property of being infinitely long too.
@CheekyBadger Sorry my question was a bit mathematical. Thank you for the link.
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@CheekyBadger Adding zeros doesn’t change the accuracy of 0.5 but adding another 3 to 0.333… does.

The difference between how we express 1/2 and 1/3 depends on our base 10 number system. They are both rational numbers because they can both be written as a fraction with two integers whereas Pi can’t
exexec · 61-69, C
3.14159 was good enough for me in engineering school, so I ignore everything after that.
@exexec the smaller is pi, the accuracy is never in error
Convivial · 26-30, F
Nope, when the last slice is gone that's it!
All over red rover!
@Convivial apple pi, my favorite
Not around me. It last about 2 days.
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Bang5luts · M
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