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Not true. If you define the circumference in terms of pi, you can define the circumference exactly.

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“Find” not “define”

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Putting things in base 10 is also a definition. Digits aren’t special.

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Was going to say the same. Also π isn’t infinite. Far from it. it’s not even bigger than 4. It’s representation in the decimal system is just so that it can’t be written there with a finite number of decimal places. But you could just write “π”. It’s short, concise and exact.

And by that definition 0.1 is also infinite… My computer can’t write that with a finite amount of digits in base 2, which it uses internally.

So… I’m crying salty tears, too.

[Edit: And we don’t even need transcendental numbers or other number systems. A third also doesn’t have a representation. So again following the logic… you can divide a cake into 5 pieces, but never into 3?!]

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Not if your diameter is d/pi. Then your circumference is d, where d > 0.

Check mate atheists.

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Well now you can’t find the radius

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Radius = d/(2*pi)

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In the spirit of the meme this does not constitute “finding” the radius. There doesn’t exist a radius for which both the radius and the circumference are rational numbers.

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Also

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Omfg why can’t I figure out why this does not work. Help me pls

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m e a s u r e

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