Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Do numbers with a never-ending number of digits exist within nature?

As we live in a universe full of integers, with everything being composed of a natural number of quarks or strings for that matter, would this contradict the nature of indefinatly long numbers. Therefore numbers such as root 2 are either rational or abstract.Do numbers with a never-ending number of digits exist within nature?
yes they do


spheres (pi) are all in nature


HNYDo numbers with a never-ending number of digits exist within nature?
Nobody knows ';for sure'; that quarks are the fundamental building blocks, or if there are superstrings or other things.


鈭? is irrational, not rational. You can calculate it, so it is not abstract either. In fact, it is used very, very often in architecural and engineering plans when constructing buildings, bridges, etc.





蟺 is the most famous irrational ';natural'; number out there. It is very simply the ratio of the circles diameter to its circumference. For whatever reason, this is not a whole number, it is irrational because it cannot be represented by a fraction of whole numbers. It has been calculated to over one trillion decimal places. Yes, trillion!


1,241,100,000,000 decimal places.





How bored must you be to want to read that!
technically, if there is a perfect rock somehow
Numbers are not physical entities and are not bound by the laws of physics. They are simply abstractions we use to help us understand the universe.





If you consider numbers to exist within nature, then all numbers exist within nature, including irrational numbers. If not, then no numbers exist within nature.
Hmmm, I think you're about 2500 years too late on this question.
define nature.





there are perfect spheres in nature, but the act of defining the surface area in itself could be deemed un-natural

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