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- From: poynor@david.wheaton.edu (George V. Poynor)
- Subject: Re: Would Pi repeat, were it expressed in a base other than 10?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.224751.4567@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:47:51 GMT
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- In article <1gij9gINNkt8@gap.caltech.edu> allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson) writes:
- >
- >>>>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... .
- >
- >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.
-
- Perhaps a trivial question, but what are the allowable
- values for digits in an expansion with pi as the base?
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