Eli5: Why do some decimal numbers go on forever? Shouldn’t they stop at some point of time?

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If we’re measuring a length of pi centimeters, why does it look finite but the number of digits is going on forever? It looks like that it’s moving small amount of time every time. Same with 0.5555555… or any number with infinite decimal places. I can’t wrap my head around it.

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They’re not just numbers. They are ratios of something. Those ratios depending on your perspective are either perfect or imperfect.

But at the end of it, the simple answer is, they represent a relationship between something, those relationships dont always have clean edges.

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