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Nah way, A circle doesn't have an exact perimeter, so it goes on, and on, and on, and on.

There is no end. It's a recurring number.

Dudes, simple answer: Pi is an irrational number. That's all you needed to say.

Pi is an irrational number, which means that it has no end, and unless you guys have taken trig or calc, it's going to be rather hard to explain why, but you guys can try to wrap your head around this:

i have both of em! lol, well, took both of em, i understand, i was using the physics definition tho lol

The rationality of a number has nothing to do with physics.

Pi is one of the most famous Irrational numbers. It will never end.

As has been said, Pi is an irrational number, and therefore it never terminates. The Japanese computer simply calculated Pi to a certain number of digits, which is a pretty respective level of accuracy. There's no way to compute the entire number, because the entire number is infinite, but by increasing the number of digits that are calculated, you increase the accuracy of the known value of Pi.

Also, to the person using the &quothysics definition", significant figures really have nothing to do with irrational numbers or why they're infinite.

sorrry, infinite, which is like saying irrational, cuz there is an infinite # of possible digits.

@Knight, that guy has no live... like, at all,

and i lol'd when it said his family didn't really care

You guys are all so stupid, pie ends when you take the last slice and finish it off with a cold glass of milk.

....Nope coz' you can always make pie.

As for the OP is there really a point to answering that? Pi will never end, the Japanese just went beyond what we've gone before.

why did the japanese have to go where nobody wanted to go and as a ripple effect make us have this discussion!?

1.511 trillion digits sounds about right - I only know pi to 3.14159265359 off by heart (it's a little party trick of mine, being able to quote that off by heart) but 1.511 trillion digits, I doubt that could fit into anyone's memory.

I believe the record for memorisation of pi would be around 83,000 digits.

what is pi and does it go on forever?