– Can Pi be calculated in another numeral system (base?)

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When Pi is calculated in decimal you get a never ending remainder. Is this simply a quirk of the decimal system that wouldn’t exist if we were born with 12 fingers instead of 10?

What would happen if your used hexadecimal or unidecimal to find the value of pi. Is there a way to find a theorical base system which would produce a whole number for pi. Like base 42, for example?

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I think Pi is always infinite regardless of the number system.

I am not a maths expert, but pi itself is not a number, its a relationship expressed as a number. So it not “calculated” in a strict sense.

It not an amount of something to be counted.

Or a length of something to be measured.

Its a relationship, a ratio, between two real numbers.

That relationship will always be the same.

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