Why Is Math So Precise?

[Dragallur]

@Visitor Even in theory it does not work. Pi is still smaller number than 4 which also means that it is finitely big and there is no infinite circumference, that is what I am trying to show you.

I think you are using the word infinite for a length instead of number of digits.

[Visitor]

1 hour ago, Dragallur said:

 

...I think you are using the word infinite for a length instead of number of digits.

Yes I am.

[Joseph Maynor]

Math is dealing with abstract numerical, logical, and geometrical relations.  This ignoring of context and generality is what gives math its simplicity.  

[Osaid]

I believe that math is a tool for measuring the universe, and through it, you may be able to find patterns and intelligence embedded in the universe itself.

[SamueLSD]

@Scholar This reality is fairly stable and predictable. 

Goes out the window once you are no longer in this reality however. 

[SamueLSD]

1 hour ago, Cykaaaa said:

 

EDIT: oh shit I've just noticed how old this thread is lol

Oops

[DaHonorableCourt]

Math is literally “being precise” in action. Math is always a 100% precise because math is constructed to be exactly and only that. However when applying math and filling in the variables, your accuracy is never 100% so never fully precise. But in the abstract sense math is per definition 100% precise.

Math is also art. It can show you beautiful things like Euler’s Identity.