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Pythagoras, a charlatan?! 😄 Per the linked article on commensurability, incommensurability(a, b) = the nonexistence of a real c, and...
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Yes, that's another issue. The digits depend on the number system that we use. Ok, \pi is unpredictable in every system, but...
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Yes, that's another issue. The digits depend on the number system that we use. Ok, \pi is unpredictable in every system, but...
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As you so correctly pointed to and I must admit, 0.14159... = \frac{14159...}{1000...} is not something I've seen in my mathematical...
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You really cannot deal with infinities as if they were numbers. And dots require a definition, or in many cases a convention we all...
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@fresh_42 , the above would be incorrect? 🤔 unless there's an infinity that begins 14159... and another infinity that begins 999.... 3...
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De nada.
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Gracias.
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Gracias.
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This is only valid if we speak of p-adic numbers. Those are a bit like Parias in mathematics...
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Si, in this case the dots have nothing to do with \infty and represent only missing information.
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Si, in this case the dots have nothing to do with \infty and represent only missing information.
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This is only valid if we speak of p-adic numbers. Those are a bit like Parias in mathematics...
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Any positive number times infinity is infinity. \overline 9 is a positive number.
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There is another possibility, points in between: 2013000\ldots 000:=20,130, \ldots,000, 000 =2.013\cdot 10^{16} but you have to write...
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