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Irrational numbers can never be expressed exactly using decimal notation with a finite number of digits.  Instead it is common to write them using only enough significant digits to solve the problem at hand, followed by an ellipsis:

Irrational numbers can never be expressed exactly using decimal notation with a finite number of digits.  Instead it is common to write them using only enough significant digits to solve the problem at hand, followed by an ellipsis:

:pi equals 3.14159...

:pi equals 3.1415926...

 

 

355 / 113 = 3.1415929...

==See also==

==See also==

[[Transcendental numbers]]

[[Transcendental numbers]]