"Pi" is NOT an Infinitely Repeating Decimal!

I was reflecting on "pi" and its history and its infinite quality and came upon an interesting thought.

I have always been intrigued with "pi" for some strange reason that I can not rationalize.  It may simply be the fact that it is a non-repeating decimal that from a human's perspective is unattainable. 

Many years ago. I came upon a simple and compact program that was capable of calculating "pi" in its continuous nature...unrestricted by the computer's limitations.  It was interesting.  At first the numbers spewed out.  (I had it hooked to a printer)  Page after page printed out with the non-repeating series of numbers.  After a while, it slowed while the calculation struggled to calculate the next digit.  In fact, seconds turned to minutes, then into hours, then into days, and weeks...and months...

When I moved from one home to another, I painstakingly created a power source and transfered the computer from one place to another...just so that the computer's work could continue uninterrupted!  It was an interesting conversation piece...many of the super computers of the time had calculated the string far beyond what my meager PC did...but I loved hearing the "zip" of the "dot-matrix" printer in the middle of the night and periodically looked at the continuous feed paper...hoping for a new digit...

After a few years, the "conversation piece" died and it quit...and my thoughts went on to other more pressing topics...

In the book "Contact" a message...actually a blueprint for a machine was hidden within "pi."  Once decoded, a traveler was able to move across the universe (transcend it) and meet with higher intelligence.  That is quite "sci-fi" from my perspective...but there may be a message embedded within "pi" that we humans miss because it is glaring us in the face...

Let's dig deeper into that thought...

As of late, I have been considering the role that human arrogance has played the shape of our scientific understanding of the world around us.  It suddenly became apparent that even our number system (base 10) is a form of human arrogance.

We have a binary system and an octal system and a hex system and so on...but all of them are converted into decimal for our own understanding...

We chose the decimal system...it has not chosen us...it is contrived and may very well be at the base of the infinite nature of "pi."

The decimal system is an invention of man...and we have accepted it the structure in which we can accurately describe the world.  The decimal system may not be the number system of the universe!  As a result we have skewed our perception based upon that which is missed or rejected by the decimal system itself.

I have no answer to this problem...but do want us to consider that in order to make quantum leaps within knowledge...we must change the way that we look at things!

We have limited (restricted) ourselves to the limitations of the decimal system and as long as we describe the world around us in decimal terms...will be limited to this filter.  In the decimal world..."pi" is a repeating number...perhaps in the REAL number system of the universe...it is one of the simpliest and pure constants to be had!

It is our arrogance as humans that shape and limit our ability to percieve the world and not the opposite.  The universe is open and waiting...to be discovered within its own terms...and its true number system...