• 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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