11
Jan
09

Pi is irrational

We know that pi (one of the famous mathematical constants, and  not that pastry) is an irrational number, that is can’t be expressed as a fraction x/y, where x and y are integers and y are non-zero. Yet pi can be expressed as 22/7.  Contradiction? Please take a look at these interesting readings:

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1 Response to “Pi is irrational”


  1. January 15, 2009 at 12:38 am

    22/7 is an approximation, isn’t it?


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