Some claim the most irrational number is the golden ratio,  1 + 1 / (1 +=20
(1 / (1 + 1/(1+ ...)))) =3D 1.61803...
I was fascinated by it for a while after hearing theories about it's=20
appearance in nature, but the wikipedia entry for it debunks many of=20
these claims.
Still, a fascinating number, maybe some of it's digits are embedded in=20
pi or vice versa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/golden-ratio.html

Joe W



On 1/2/2013 10:27 PM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>> If its fractional decimal numbers never do settle into a permanent repea=
ting
>> pattern it must mean that this constant contains everything that can be
>> represented with numbers
> Nah; no more so than any other irrational number.  e, pi, sqrt(2)=85
>
> I guess that there must be within pi an arbitrarily long sequence of digi=
ts that matches the first N digits of e.  And vis versa.  And every irratio=
nal number must contain within itself a very close approximation of every o=
ther irrational number.
>
> Which is just a meaningless consequence of representation.
>
> BillW
>
>

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