2006-09-10 15:46:26 · 2 answers · asked by Chris M 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's the other way around. It's not that the universe is an approximation, because we can't know the exact value of Pi; it's that Pi doesn't trully exist in reality, and is actually a fabrication of mathematics.
That doesn't make it any less real; pi is a very useful number. But the real number pi, the one that goes for an infinite number of decimal places, doesn't occur in reality, because (as far as we know) there's no such thing as a true circle in reality. True circles are purely hypothetical in nature, and thus so is pi.
2006-09-10 15:56:27 · answer #1 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pi is not an approximation, it is an exact number, it just has an infinite number of decimal places.
2006-09-10 15:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by outbaksean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋