How can we use irrational numbers in math if we don’t know the full number?

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How can we use irrational numbers in math if we don’t know the full number?

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Answer 1

1/3 is an irrational number. We know what 1/3 is. This is simply a limit of having a base 10 system. Nature isn’t base 10; it doesn’t always fit into this arbitrary system that we created.