I am wrong in thinking the circumference or the diameter of a circle has to be rational?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    9 months ago

    And this comes up in some fields like surveying. The tools are relatively precise, but not enough to be completely accurate in closing a loop of measurements. Because of the known error, there is a hierarchy of things to measure from as continual measurements can lead to small errors becoming large.