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IsTom on Oct 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: All Rational Approximations of Pi Are Useless

I think the reason for this is Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem that says there are only finitely many "good" rational approximations of pi (or any other irrational number).

cperciva on Oct 1, 2012 [–]

The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem deals specifically with algebraic numbers, of which pi is not one.

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