How do we assign rational value to numbers like pi and infinity, numbers that mathematically have no rational ending, if our brains cannot rationalize these numbers? The concept alone is as irrational as the numbers…
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You don’t. It very rarely matters in practice that pi has infinite digits. A few dozen will get you calculations accurate enough to be within a speck of dust sized error on a circle the size of our galaxy. If you just give it a name like pi, or x, or a, or whatever, you can just use that, the math will check out fine without you writing out the digits.
> The concept alone is as irrational as the numbers…
You better get used to it, because they outnumber rational numbers. In fact, in the set of real numbers (rational+irrational numbers), the rational numbers make up 0% of the total.
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