E.g. how can we say that a circle has an area of 25.00cm^2 if pi is irrational?? How can a circle, a closed shape, have a limited area if pi is unlimited??
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My isn’t unlimited/infinite. It is an exact value between 3 and 4. And we *can* get exact value for areas and circumferences if we state them in terms of *pi*. However, if we want to represent them in other ways, then we will likely have to round.
But, there are trivial ways of getting exact values for areas and circumferences. For example, the circumference of a circle whose radius is 1/pi is exactly 2.
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