If we take a rope of length $x$ which is rational quantity and we make a circle out of it, we measure its diameter which is also rational, if we divide a rational number by another rational number we should get a rational number but the division of length of circumference and diameter should give $π$ which is irrational...?
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How is $π$ irrational if.....
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When you measure the length of something or the diameter of a circle in real life it looks like some rational number ... but that doesn't mean it is. In real life you just can't get any precise measurement of something.
And don't forget that math is an abstraction ... Lines in math have no thickness, whereas ropes in real life do; so how exactly would you even measure the diameter when laying the rope in a circle?