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- From: mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Aurora Borealis and the Last Digit of Pi
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- Date: 13 Oct 92 15:20:43 GMT
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- Did anyone see the episode of "Northern Exposure" last night?
- There was a mathematician in it loosely modelled on the Chudnovsky
- article in the New Yorker earlier this year. She said that
- when she was in graduate school she had thought about studying
- other trancendental numbers, but pi was special. She had also
- considered studying other fields such as imaginary numbers.
- Basically it was a bunch of transcendental, mystical hooey.
- I think the Chudnovsky's were mentioned (my reception is not
- too good). "The --novsky's have only gotten out to 2 billion
- digits", she says.
-