Re:How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
by dpark on Sunday June 28, 2026 @04:49PM
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> to know that there is not exact value we can give to the area of a thing
Pi has an exact value. It is irrational, not inexact.
This is increasingly irrelevant and inaccurate rambling I’m engaging with. I’m out. Take care.
Huh? From the article:
"Pi is a non-terminating and non-recurring irrational number. When we say that pi is infinite, we intend to say that pi has an infinite expression, not an infinite value."
That is what I meat by infinte, as in the number never ends.
I am not commenting about being more precise. I am talking about exactness. Yes, with every didgit we add to pi we become more precise, and there is a limit to what we need, but to know that there is not exact value we can give to the area of a thing, how can we say that is a thing at a deeper level? If we know things because we "measure them" and measuring is never exact, what do we really know?