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- From: allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:20:32 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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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>
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- Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM> writes:
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- >>>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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- The second statement is the only true one, if we take 9=1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1,
- as I tend to. (Cross-thread with "Numbers and sets", I guess! : -8 )
- In this case the number mentioned by D. Dodson is much larger than pi.
- An instructive related fact: in base 5, 5 = 10 = 4.44444.....
- Allen K.
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