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Re: The ultimate answer to the question 42
« on: June 26, 2009, 06:14:14 PM »
The inability to exactly express pi is largely due to lacking the skill, it's not necessarily pi's fault. As Karlos suggested, just use it as your number base. Now imagine a circle with radius pi.
base 10:
r = pi
area = pi^3 ~= 31,006276680299820175476315067101

base pi:
r=1
area = 1^3 = 1 - voilá

Having trouble counting your fingers in this number base? Well, it ain't that easy. ;)

In real life you're stuck with units anyway (cm, inch, whatever) which you can't break down, so just leave the pi as unit and you have an 'exact' figure.
« Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 06:33:04 PM by Zac67 »