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Something I’ve always been flummoxed by
Why does Pi have an infinite number of decimal places?
Why do you never get to a point when you can say 4, oh, that’s it, exactly
Why? Why?



Why?


Maybe because, as Plato observed, the perfect, or "form" circle doesn't exist except as a metaphysical ideal, beyond the material world.

Nothing in the universe quite fits anyway.
 
Because a circle has infinite sides.

I must confess when I read this I thought that you’d made it up and it didn’t make any sense

But then when I read Archer’s reply as well I got it

Good team work I’d say because without your reply I’d have thought he was just being philosophical

I learnt something today :emoticon-0126-nerd:
 
I must confess when I read this I thought that you’d made it up and it didn’t make any sense

But then when I read Archer’s reply as well I got it

Good team work I’d say because without your reply I’d have thought he was just being philosophical

I learnt something today :emoticon-0126-nerd:
Our number system is sometimes inadequate to express the infinite wonder of the universe.

That’s not philosophical by the way, but fact.
 
Our number system is sometimes inadequate to express the infinite wonder of the universe.

That’s not philosophical by the way, but fact.


The boundaries between philosophy, geometry, algebra, astronomy or any other field of study are illusory anyway, and wouldn't have been recognised by the Greeks (and others) who pioneered them <ok>
 
Our number system is sometimes inadequate to express the infinite wonder of the universe.
That’s not philosophical by the way, but fact.

Use wavefunctions!

I think maths is actually remarkably adequate at describing the universe. What’s inadequate is the average humans ability to understand it.

CMFGs practical use of Wavefunctions to always be in the right place at the right time was undeniable, but ask him to explain it in an equation and he’d be lost

As for Matty’s use of trajectory equations of projectile motion, sublime on the pitch, clueless in the classroom
 
Always regretted my lack of maths skills as I am interested in the Universe and the attempt by physics to understand it. There's a beauty there beyond comprehension. Saw a programme where a physicist was so excited by her subject....she finished by saying that she was sad that not everyone had the mathematical ability to enjoy it. That's me.