Pi/Infinite Numbers

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Published on 2009-07-27T22:04:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 9:53 UTC
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I'm curious about infinite numbers in computing, in particular pi.

For a computer to render a circle it would have to understand pi. But how can it if it is infinite?

Am I looking too much into this? Would it just use a rounded value?

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