Actually, you can express PI in heaxadecimal form. This was proven by Simon
Plouffe. A decimal expression is still unknown.
Bassam Abdul-Baki
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> > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:50:44 -0500
> > From: Jeff Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Mersenne: pi
> >
> > You're bumping up against the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus here. Pi
> > DOES have a precisely defined value, but you cannot express it in decimal
> > form. You can express it as an infinite expansion, however.
> >
> > Just as you can never get to the end of pi, though its value is known, you
> > can never PRECISELY note the area of a circle -- you can only express it
> > more and more accurately, depending on how accurate the value of PI you
> use
> > is.
>
> Actually what you're saying is, you can PRECISELY know the area of a circle,
> or PRECISELY know the diameter of a circle, but not both, without resorting
> to using the symbol pi. Sounds like an instance of the Pisenberg Uncertainty
> Principle to me....
>
> Well, back to lurking.
> Phil Brady
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