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Transcendental numbers translate into the real world just as well as any other Real number.[1]

You can't fabricate a string that is exactly Pi long anymore than you can fabricate a string that is exactly One long. But you can get as close to a transcendental number as you can to an algebraic number.

[1] I'm ignoring the trivial case.



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