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Very interesting response. The thing that keeps me from entirely agreeing (with an admission that I don't have a background in the science you mentioned[1], so
by geebee 7y ago
Very interesting response. The thing that keeps me from entirely agreeing (with an admission that I don't have a background in the science you mentioned[1], so I can't really understand it) is that the number is pi - the 55 decimals is just an approximation that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers. The number isn't the rational that can be made arbitrarily close to a limit, the number is the limit. That number is pi. pi is every bit as much a number as 1, 2, 3. So is sqrt(2). So is e.
My understanding is that almost all numbers are real, but not rational. They can be expressed as the limit of a sequence that can be made arbitrarily close to the limit. But the number is not the sequence, the number is the limit of the sequence.
[1] = I had to look up what a Planck is. Should have taken more physics along with the math.