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- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191429.29392@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:14:29 GMT
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- >>> That is say non-decimal.
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- >> Intuitively (not saying much, that is), I'd say yes, but that it would re-
- >> quire a transcendental base....
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- > Try writing it in base 3.1415926--- :->
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- I don't know if one can truely say there is no base...I would wager to say
- an integral base probably can be proved or has been proved not to repeat.
- But as the guy above said, if you choose base pi then the number pi would
- be 10.
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