From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 18:14:42 EST
D. F. Siemens, Jr. wrote:
>
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:55:52 -0700 "John Burgeson"
> <burgythree@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Vernon wrote:
> >
> > "But what I think has first to be established, and generally agreed
> > upon, is
> > the vanishingly small probability that these phenomena may be
> > attributed to
> > chance. Are you really that
> > unimpressed by the '10 billion to 1 against' scenario associated
> > with the
> > 'pi / e' affair?"
> >
> > Burgy wrote:
> >
> > In a word, yes.
> >
> Seems to me that there is another consideration that I have not seen
> mentioned. Would the omniscient deity provide a crude approximation to a
> value which he must know to be transcendental? I would certainly be more
> impressed if there were the first sequence of a string of repeating
> decimals: something like 0.3, 0.142857, 0.1, 0.09, ..., or a variant with
> a different base. For example, 1/3 in base 7 comes out 0.222...
Or the first few terms of a series for pi or e.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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