Why Do Some Numbers Never End?

Some numbers never end because they just keep going and going, like a never-ending story! Imagine you’re counting cookies in a jar, if the jar has exactly 10 cookies, that’s easy. But if it has π cookies, you’ll be counting forever because it never ends!

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Examples

A pizza that has exactly π slices, you’ll never finish counting them!
The number of steps it takes to walk around a circular lake, it goes on forever!
A jar that holds √2 candies, you can’t count them all!

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