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Originally Posted by DAEpperson View Post
Okay Brainiacs - dumb it down just a bit.

Can a circle's area be a finite, rational number?
If the answer is yes, how is this possible if pi is irrational???
by definition all rational #s are finite ie they can be expressed as a fraction.

there is no rational # that is not also finite

here's something else to think about, between any 2 rationals #s is an infinite # of irrational #s, the reverse is not true,
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