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Pi is unending as I understand it, there is no final digit after the decimal point (there is an internet site giving it to 200 billion decimal places - http://ja0hxv.calico.jp/pai/epivalue.html . Since the circumference of a circle is Pi times the diameter, how can the circumference be finite if the value of pi goes on to infinity? I know I’m missing something obvious but I don’t know what it is. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone ( talk) 16:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for your answers, now I see my error - Adrian Pingstone ( talk) 18:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Adrian is not the first philosopher to argue that infinitely many contributions must produce an infinite total amount. See Zeno's paradoxes. Bo Jacoby ( talk) 07:28, 6 June 2009 (UTC).
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Pi is unending as I understand it, there is no final digit after the decimal point (there is an internet site giving it to 200 billion decimal places - http://ja0hxv.calico.jp/pai/epivalue.html . Since the circumference of a circle is Pi times the diameter, how can the circumference be finite if the value of pi goes on to infinity? I know I’m missing something obvious but I don’t know what it is. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone ( talk) 16:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for your answers, now I see my error - Adrian Pingstone ( talk) 18:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Adrian is not the first philosopher to argue that infinitely many contributions must produce an infinite total amount. See Zeno's paradoxes. Bo Jacoby ( talk) 07:28, 6 June 2009 (UTC).