Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2 have always fascinated humankind. After all, they symbolize infinity better ...

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The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

Irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2 have always fascinated humankind. After all, they symbolize infinity better than anything else: their sequence of digits after the decimal point ...