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To: fhayek

So, how can we ever know its finite value?

May as well be an infinite number...


14 posted on 03/14/2024 12:44:24 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
So, how can we ever know its finite value?

picture a number line - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...

pi has exactly 1 spot on that line - just like 1, 4 1/2, 7.2...

just because you write down another decimal place digit to the "approximation", the value of pi does not change or change locations on the number line

34 posted on 03/14/2024 1:50:57 PM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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