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- From: mnewman@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Newman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.093320.534@client24.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 09:33:20 GMT
- Sender: mnewman@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Newman)
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: mnewman@client24.comlab
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- werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong) writes :
- >G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
- >> [see subject line ]
- >>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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