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How do we know pi is an irrational number?

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Pi belongs to a huge mathematical group called irrational numbers, which go on forever and cannot be written as fractions.

Mathematicians don't have a universal method to show that a particular number is irrational, so they must develop a different proof for each case.

Over the past 300 years , mathematicians have established different proofs of pi's irrationality.

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