I am wrong in thinking the circumference or the diameter of a circle has to be rational?

  • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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    9 months ago

    how would we measure a never ending number?

    You’re talking about maths, maths is theoretical. Measuring is physics.

    In the real world you eventually would have to measure the atoms of the ink on your paper, and it would get really complicated. Basically … you can’t exactly meassure how long it is because physics gets in the way (There is an entire BBC documentary called “How Long is a Piece of String” it’s quite interesting).