However, with numbers that have non-repeating inifinite decimal expansions, it is completely imposible to do arithmetic in the decimal notation. I'm not exagerating: it's literally physically impossible to represent on paper the result of doing 3pi in decimal notation in an unambiguous form other than 3pi. It's also completely impossible to use the decimal expansion of pi to compute that pi / pi = 1.
Here, I'll show you what it would be like to try:
pi / pi
= 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820949445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132820664709384460955058223172....
Now, of course you can do arithmetic with certain approximations of pi. For example, I can do this: pi / pi
≈ 3.1415 / 3.1415
= 1
Or even 3 × pi
≈ 3 × 3
= 9
But this is not doing arithmetic with the decimal expansion of pi, this is doing arithmetic with rational numbers that are close enoigh to pi for some purpose (that has to be defined).