Why would God make repeating decimals to confuse you?

Answer 1

It's a matter of faith. If you believe that god created repeating decimals, then you must also believe that he or she had a reason for it. The only thing less productive then questioning god's motives is expecting those questions to be answered.

Answer 2

It's a matter of faith. If you believe that god created repeating decimals, then you must also believe that he or she had a reason for it. The only thing less productive then questioning god's motives is expecting those questions to be answered.

Answer 3

It's a matter of faith. If you believe that god created repeating decimals, then you must also believe that he or she had a reason for it. The only thing less productive then questioning god's motives is expecting those questions to be answered.

Answer 4

This comes back to the fundamental question in mathematical philosophy: Is math a created language that explains the natural world in a form we can use or is math a natural element of the world that we are slowly discovering? (It also assumes the existence of God.)

To those of the former school, man created mathematics and, therefore, men are responsible of the existence of decimals in much the same degree that men are responsible for "the novel" or "oratory" and other linguistic creations.

To those of the latter school, math is part of organization of the universe and, therefore, a universe that is functional to contain our kind of life would require the very mathematics that has decimals. This would make decimals a necessary component of the universe that God created.

Answer 5

The transcendental relationship between circles and squares of the same size (pi) was obviously intended to frustrate the polytheistic Greeks in their academic hubris.

Answer 6

Questioning God's motives is as unsatisfactory as it is ill-advised.