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Not at all, the reason you may think so is that you're very used to representing numbers using a base 10 number system and in that system it is inherently impossible to represent pi. But if you change how you represent numbers, you can represent pi exactly. What OP did was represent pi using a syntax inspired by a programming language, which is just as valid a number system as any other formal representation as far as correctness goes, although of course as a human I likely would not wish to express most of my use cases involving numbers using a full blown programming language.

That said, one can perform all of arithmetic using that system and represent any property of numbers that could be represented otherwise.




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