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Folks have been calculating "Pi" for decades, each one carrying it a little(?) further. I quit following the idea when Pi went beyond 50K decimals. Last I heard, it had been taken out to 500K and the video above has it at a million. There is an exact answer that cannot be expressed in numbers. The point came up when I was taking a class on computers in the '70s. The instructer said he would allow calculaters but they would not give an accurate answer. True at the time when calculators were new, not so now. . .
The true (and exact) answer is "Pi=C/D", circumference divided by diameter. Any mathematician will back me up. . . We can calculate numbers 'til the cows come home, it is a challenge for some folks. But there is no number of numbers, pun intended, that can produce an exact answer, only the formula / ratio can. I think there is a word for it, like irrational, for the sq root of -1. But I can't remember. . .
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The true (and exact) answer is "Pi=C/D", circumference divided by diameter. Any mathematician will back me up. . . We can calculate numbers 'til the cows come home, it is a challenge for some folks. But there is no number of numbers, pun intended, that can produce an exact answer, only the formula / ratio can. I think there is a word for it, like irrational, for the sq root of -1. But I can't remember. . .
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