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> Break-up pi in whatever means you think is reasonable. You can't. Pi is irrational.
by pdonis 6y ago
> Break-up pi in whatever means you think is reasonable.
You can't. Pi is irrational.
- dragontamer 6y ago> You can't. Pi is irrational. You just need to break it up infinitely times. We usually call the sequence 31415926...
- pdonis 6y ago> You just need to break it up infinitely times. I've responded to this elsewhere in the thread: I don't think adopting increasingly perverse interpretations of "repeated addition" as you try to include more and more numbers is a useful way to teach multiplication.
- beaconstudios 6y agowhat they described is identical to long multiplication. That's not perverse, it's how most people multiply numbers.