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Old 06-28-2008, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by chette777 View Post
and Pi is not an infinite number a computer was finally able to bring it to an end at 1.2 trillion decimals.
This is not correct. While the decimal sequence of Pi has been computed to over a trillion places, it has not been "finally" computed. As far as anybody knows, Pi is an irrational number and therefore has no "finite" representation as a fraction or decimal.