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[–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Not sure where you're going with the decimal thing. Pi had infinite digits in any integer base because it's irrational.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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 or 'infinity' by the words of the comic.

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