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You use an approximate decimal representation or part of an infinite series.

For example,

pi = 4*[1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ... ]

The above series is infinite but you can stop whenever you want to get an approximation. There are many such series.

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Q: How do you approximate the value of an irrational number?
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