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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!scylla!daryl
- From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
- Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.023405.5292@oracorp.com>
- Organization: ORA Corporation
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:34:05 GMT
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- brumleve@iboga (Dan Brumleve) writes:
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- >dat92oma@ludat.lth.se (Ola Martensson) writes:
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- >>A friend and I discussed if you can find any integer anywhere
- >>in the expansion of PI?
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- >Hmm... I'd think that you would be able to find any integer in an irrational
- >number. Not sure though.
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- I don't know the answer to the original question, but I do know that
- Dan is wrong: it is easy to show that the following decimal expansion
- is irrational:
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- .01001000100001000001...
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