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General Science / Can irrational numbers be made more meaningful with a different counting system?
« on: 13/09/2012 01:51:49 »
Probably more maths than science, but I was thinking specifically of pi and the fact that the decimal places just seem to keep going.
If we changed our number system from base-10 to something else like base-7 or base-19 for example, would it change the spectrum of irrational numbers and would we be able to find a better way to resolve something like pi?
If we changed our number system from base-10 to something else like base-7 or base-19 for example, would it change the spectrum of irrational numbers and would we be able to find a better way to resolve something like pi?