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- From: kekamins@zeno30.math.UWaterloo.ca (kekaminsky)
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:59:16 GMT
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- In article <3321@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
- >
- >That is say non-decimal.
- >
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- No, it wouldn't, for application of the Euclidean algorithm would then allow
- you to then express it in base 10 in a repeating decimal expansion. Since the
- decimal expansion is irrational (and transcendental), so will all other bases.
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- For an interesting play on this concept, read Carl Sagan 'Contact'.
-
- Kirk
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