What is the Infimum of the Set of Rational Numbers with respect to pi?

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Homework Statement


Find inf{|x-pi|:x\inQ}

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I was thinking that the greatest lower bound must be 0, but that seemed a bit simple. Is there any justification I have to give for this?

Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers. :)
 
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Yes, there exist rational number arbitrarily close to any real number and, in particular, arbitrarily close to \pi. The infimum of |x- \pi| for x rational is 0.
 


Thanks for the clarification. :)
 
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