At 01:40 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Darxus wrote:
> irrational, but like the mersenne grouping , if you look at pi your brain
> > might force you to see some period or bunch of digits that seems to be
> > repeating...
>
>So you're not actually talking about a set of exact digits repeating, but
>some othe
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philippe Trottier wrote:
> Yes, I have learned math in French and its very far away. And my english
> start to get rusted in Finland. sorry for the confusion, I know that PI is
> irrational, but like the mersenne grouping , if you look at pi your brain
> might force you to se
rs not algebraic are called transcendental.
JT
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From: Joth Tupper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: GIMPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: RE: PI and other periods
> Anyone remember Louisville nu
>
> I have some intrest in the number Pi -- I know 50-some digits, and have
> been looking into getting a few million digits hardbound.
>
> But while watching the movie Pi, it occurred to me that since the number
> Pi has *nothing* to do with base 10, there would be no repitition in the
> digit
At 11:14 21.10.1999 -0400, Jud McCranie wrote:
>At 12:09 PM 10/21/99 +, Steinar H . Gunderson wrote:
>overtime... But
>> >again MAYBE, there is a real period to that number...
>>
>>No.
>>
>>As far as I know, there is a proof saying that pi has no periods.
>
>If pi was periodic it would be rati
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philippe Trottier wrote:
> HI,
>
> Again if you look from a human eye, we can see (imagine) a nearly possible
> period in that number ..., again that's human brain doing overtime... But
> again MAYBE, there is a real period to that number... and this number also
> star
At 12:09 PM 10/21/99 +, Steinar H . Gunderson wrote:
overtime... But
> >again MAYBE, there is a real period to that number...
>
>No.
>
>As far as I know, there is a proof saying that pi has no periods.
If pi was periodic it would be rational, but pi is irrational.
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ffort (but maybe a lot more memory than I seem to have!).
Joth
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From: Philippe Trottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 10:39 PM
Subject: Mersenne: RE: PI and other periods
> HI,
>
> Again if you lo
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 07:39:59AM +0200, Philippe Trottier wrote:
> Again if you look from a human eye, we can see (imagine) a nearly possible
>period in that number ..., again that's human brain doing overtime... But
>again MAYBE, there is a real period to that number...
No.
As far as I
HI,
Again if you look from a human eye, we can see (imagine) a nearly possible
period in that number ..., again that's human brain doing overtime... But
again MAYBE, there is a real period to that number... and this number also
start to have a considerable amount of known digits (We would
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