Comment on suck it, math nerds
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months agoNot sure where you’re going with the decimal thing. Pi had infinite digits in any base because it’s irrational.
Comment on suck it, math nerds
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months agoNot sure where you’re going with the decimal thing. Pi had infinite digits in any base because it’s irrational.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 6 months ago
I thought that was the joke in the comic? That we can’t know numbers exactly that have an infinite decimal expansion. That’d be true for some rational numbers like a third, if you change the basis of the numeral system it’d be different numbers. And irrational numbers too if you have a integer base. But I’d argue how we write down a number isn’t what determines ‘exactness’.