Em 3/1/2013 01:27, William "Chops" Westfield escreveu:
>> If its fractional decimal numbers never do settle into a permanent repea=
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>> pattern it must mean that this constant contains everything that can be=
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>> 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


It is possible to create an infinite non-repeating sequence of digits
that doesn't contain any substantial part of Pi or e, or whatever other
"magical" numbers. Alternating varying-length sequences of just digits 5
and 6, for instance.

Isaac

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