Hello, I'm a specialist in mathematics, and I'd be happy to explain why the number pi (π) is an infinite decimal.
Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It's an irrational number, which means it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction of two integers. The decimal representation of pi goes on forever without repeating, and it contains no discernible pattern. This is because pi is a
transcendental number, which is a number that is not algebraic. In other words, pi is not a root of any non-zero polynomial equation with rational coefficients.
The fact that pi is transcendental has been proven through mathematical theorems, most notably by the work of mathematicians such as Johann Lambert, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann, who proved that pi is indeed a transcendental number in the late 19th century.
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