*> Break-up pi in whatever means you think is reasonable.* You can't. Pi is irra...

dragontamer · on March 3, 2021

> You can't. Pi is irrational.

You just need to break it up infinitely times. We usually call the sequence 31415926...

pdonis · on March 3, 2021

> You just need to break it up infinitely times.

I've responded to this elsewhere in the thread: I don't think adopting increasingly perverse interpretations of "repeated addition" as you try to include more and more numbers is a useful way to teach multiplication.

beaconstudios · on March 3, 2021

what they described is identical to long multiplication. That's not perverse, it's how most people multiply numbers.