Re: By Design (was Re: Numbers)

From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. (dfsiemensjr@juno.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 18:31:01 EST

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    On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 18:14:42 -0500 George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
    writes:
    > D. F. Siemens, Jr. wrote:
    > 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
    >
    What would a Babylonian or Egyptian notation for such a series be? Or
    what kind of transliteration scheme will present the series in ancient
    Hebrew? Do you suppose Vernon can locate a candidate?
    Dave

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