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Pi is an irrational number.

A rational number is one that can be expressed as a fraction (or ratio), e.g. 1/3.

There are fractions that are near Pi, for example:

22/7 = 3.142857 (PI = 3.14159265...)

A closer fraction is:

355/113 = 3.14159292

However whatever fraction you have, you will never get exactly PI. Hence it is irrational

See the links for proofs that pi is irrational.

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