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- From: solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.160421.26301@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Reply-To: solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
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- References: <1gaovrINNsf3@gap.caltech.edu> <1gb6o5INNm43@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> <Bz4p1C.DtG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec14.152439.11715@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:04:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.152439.11715@news.eng.convex.com>, Dave Dodson
- <dodson@convex.COM> writes:
- |> 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.... ;-)
- |>
- |> Combining this with a previously-beaten-to-death result, we see that
- |> pi to the base pi is 9.999... .
-
- Base pi? No joking?
-
- Well, what are the first 5 digits of what we normally
- call "5" in this base?
-
-
- Solan
-