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- From: stein@hal.nta.no (Stein Kulseth)
- Subject: Re: Irrational numbers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.104416.13424@nntp.nta.no>
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- References: <19723.2b6495ca@ecs.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:44:16 GMT
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- In article <19723.2b6495ca@ecs.umass.edu>, padmanab@ecs.umass.edu writes:
- |> Here is an interesting puzzle concerning
- |> irrational numbers:
- |>
- |> Can you find two IRRATIONAL NUMBERS P and Q such that
- |>
- |> Q
- |> P = rational?
- |>
- |> HAVE FUN!
- |>
- |> -Prasad Padmanabhan
- |> Dept. of ECE
- |> University of Massachusetts
- |> Amherst MA 01003
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- e and ln2
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- stein.kulseth@nta.no (Norwegian Telecom Research)
- 'When murders are committed by mathematics, they can be solved by
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