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- From: Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Originator: dodson@bach.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.152439.11715@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:24:39 GMT
- Reply-To: dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson)
- References: <1gaovrINNsf3@gap.caltech.edu> <1gb6o5INNm43@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> <Bz4p1C.DtG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bz4p1C.DtG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> brumleve@gauss (Dan Brumleve) writes:
- >bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett) writes:
- >
- >>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....
- >
- >>Of course, pi to the base pi is 1.000000000....
- >
- >>:-)
- >
- >
- >Not to nitpick, but it's 10.00000.... ;-)
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- Combining this with a previously-beaten-to-death result, we see that
- pi to the base pi is 9.999... .
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