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Short answer: yes.

Irrational Numbers like PI have what are called "decimal expansions." For PI, decimal expansions would be numbers like:

3.14

3.14159

3.141592653589793238

etc.

These expansions are, themselves, rational numbers.

The thing is, an irrational number has an infinitely long, non-repeating sequence of digits after the decimal point. While these digits can be computer forever to a precision limited only by how much effort a person is willing to put into it, they cannot be exactly represented as decimal numbers. Any possible finite decimal number that you come up with will not be a perfect representation of an irrational number.

So strictly speaking, I would say that a decimal number can only ever represent a rational number.

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