• @[email protected]
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    698 months ago

    Not true. If you define the circumference in terms of pi, you can define the circumference exactly.

    • @gmtom
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      78 months ago

      “Find” not “define”

      • Gnome Kat
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        458 months ago

        Putting things in base 10 is also a definition. Digits aren’t special.

        • @[email protected]
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          8 months ago

          Was going to say the same. Also π isn’t infinite. Far from it. it’s not even bigger than 4. It’s representation in the decimal system is just so that it can’t be written there with a finite number of decimal places. But you could just write “π”. It’s short, concise and exact.

          And by that definition 0.1 is also infinite… My computer can’t write that with a finite amount of digits in base 2, which it uses internally.

          So… I’m crying salty tears, too.

          [Edit: And we don’t even need transcendental numbers or other number systems. A third also doesn’t have a representation. So again following the logic… you can divide a cake into 5 pieces, but never into 3?!]

        • @mrsemi
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          18 months ago

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      • @[email protected]
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        178 months ago

        That doesnt make a difference. You can find the exact circumference of a circle, you just cant express it in the decimal system as a number (thats why we have a symbol for it so you can still express the exact value)