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- From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for help
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.150941.12619@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 15:09:41 GMT
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- In article <1444@kepler1.rentec.com>, andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan4.140128.20155@choate.edu> jburne@spock.uucp (John Burnette)
- |> writes:
- |> >"Give two numbers, x and y, whose sum is rational and whose product is
- |> >irrational."
- |>
- |> >x = .10100100010000....
- |> >y = .01011011101111....
- |>
- |> >Obviously x+y=1/9 (and, please, let's not start that thread again...)
- |> >but I've always been at a lost about x*y.
- |>
- |> It isn't entirely clear but I suppose that x is a Liouville* number, in
- |> which case it is transcendental.
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- It wasn't explicitly stated, but I took the chains of zeroes to be increasing
- linearly in size, i.e. x = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} 10^{-n(n+1)/2}. In which case
- the gaps aren't big enough to make the rational approximations with denominator
- 10^{n(n+1)/2} convergents to x, let alone make it a Liouville number.
-
- |> *Or a Thue-Siegel-Roth number, etc.
-
- Same applies.
-
- Chris Thompson
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