At 10:50 AM 2/9/00 -0500, Jeff Woods wrote:
>You're bumping up against the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus here. Pi
>DOES have a precisely defined value, but you cannot express it in decimal
>form. You can express it as an infinite expansion, however.
Infinite to me means never ending. A precisely defined value to me is a
finite value.
A never ending value is not finite.
>Just as you can never get to the end of pi, though its value is known, you
>can never PRECISELY note the area of a circle -- you can only express it
>more and more accurately, depending on how accurate the value of PI you
use is.
I have a circle with a area of 5 square inches drawn on my pad. 5 inches is
precise.
Dan
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