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To: Reno89519

Why is it never-ending?


5 posted on 03/14/2019 2:08:39 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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Why is it never-ending?

Because Pi is an irrational number.

8 posted on 03/14/2019 2:13:57 PM PDT by LucyT
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Pi is one of the transcendental numbers, all of which are non-terminating. It is not the root of any algebraic polynomial - a polynomial with rational coefficients.

In the late nineteenth century there was a debate in professional math circles as to whether every number was the solution of an algebraic equation. The matter was resolved with a proof that pi is not such a number. Another transcendental number is e (~2.7182818284...), the base of natural logarithms and there is also the Euler-Mascheroni constant (~0.57712...). Any rational multiple of a transcendental number is also transcendental so there are a lot of them.

52 posted on 03/14/2019 3:51:56 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Because Pi claims to measure a “circle”, a thing that does not actually exist. What exists is a series of connected triangles.


65 posted on 03/14/2019 4:38:48 PM PDT by myerson
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