How about ANY FINITE SEQUENCE AT ALL?

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[โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Pi is often defined as 3.141 592 653... Does that mean Pi does not contain any 7s or 8s?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago*

    That's a decimal approximation of Pi with an ellipsis at the end to indicate its an approximation, not a definition. The way the ellipsis is used above is different. It's being used to define a number via the decimal expansion by saying it's an infinite sum of negative powers of 10 defined by the pattern before the ellipsis.

    So we have:

    0.101001000100001000001 . . . = 10^-1 + 10^-2 + 10^-3 + 10^-4 +10^-5+ . . .

    Pi, however, is not defined this way. Pi can be defined as twice the solution of the integral from -1 to 1 of the square root of (1-x^2), a function defining a unit semi-circle.

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