Imagine you're counting jellybeans in a jar, they come to an end. But some numbers, like π (pi), never stop! They keep going forever with no pattern, just like a never-ending story. These are called infinite numbers. If you write out π, it goes on and on: 3.141592653... and so on, there's no end in sight.
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- π (pi) is used to calculate the circumference of a circle, but it keeps going forever: 3.1415926...
- √2 is the diagonal of a square with sides of length 1, and it also goes on forever.
- If you try to write out 1/7, it repeats every six decimal places, but irrational numbers never stop.
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See also
- Why Does Infinity Feel So Strange?
- How Infinity Works (And How It Breaks Math)?
- Why Do Numbers Feel So Special to Us?
- What Is Infinity Actually Like?
- What Makes a ‘Horizon’ Feel Infinite?
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