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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
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- References: <BzGovA.JzJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <DREIER.92Dec18094157@durban.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec18.204929.24397@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:08:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.204929.24397@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely) writes:
- >In article <DREIER.92Dec18094157@durban.berkeley.edu> dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:
- >ove.
- >>
- >> ..., it is a very open question as to whether every integer
- >>appears in the decimal expansion of Pi. This is called the Goldbach
- >>conjecture, and I'm not aware of any real progress toward a solution.
- >>--
- >>Roland Dreier dreier@math.berkeley.edu
- >
- >Goldbach Conjecture: Every even no is the sum of (odd) primes.
- >
- >How does this relate to the above? (What am I missing here?)
-
- Ask rather what Dreier is missing. His "very open question," while
- indeed wide open, is not called the Goldbach conjecture. It's called
- the "does every integer appear in the decimal expansion of Pi?"
- conjecture - apparently no mathematician wanting to be publicly
- associated with such a useless question. :-)
-