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- From: bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett)
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- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 23:03:33 GMT
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- werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong) writes:
- :Intuitively (not saying much, that is), I'd say yes, but that it would re-
- :quire a transcendental base....
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- Of course, pi to the base pi is 1.000000000....
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