Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00553)

Thanks, John... I wasn't at all sure about Pi being fractional. That's why 
I used "If" as the conjunctive qualifier. However, whether it is or not 
really doesn't change the question -- since the total number of digits, if 
countable before the Universe goes to sleep and all the computers disappear, would 
still be the same.:-) 

Leon 


In a message dated 01/17/05 6:06:03 PM, John@LiteracyCurriculums.com writes:

><< If Pi is an absolutely constant fractional number representing the
>ratio of the diameter to the radius of a circle (which I'm sure it
>is:-) -- how many absolute cardinal and ordinal numbers are there in
>the arithmetical expression of that ratio? >>
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>Except that Pi has been proven NOT to be a fractional number. It is
>not the ratio of one integer to another. It cannot be written as the
>quotient of one integer divided by another.
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>Yes, Pi is the ratio of the circumference divided by the diameter, but
>if the diameter is a rational number, the circumference is irrational.
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>If Pi were an absolutely constant fractional number, they would have
>found a repeating set of numbers in Pi by now. They've calculated Pi
>to many millions of digits and not found any repetition yet.
>
>-- 
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>John
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