Re: By Design (was Re: Numbers)

From: Vernon Jenkins (vernon.jenkins@virgin.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 16:56:05 EST

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    George,

    I can do no better than draw your attention to my recent remarks to Dave.

    Regards,

    Vernon

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
    To: "D. F. Siemens, Jr." <dfsiemensjr@juno.com>
    Cc: <burgythree@hotmail.com>; <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:14 PM
    Subject: Re: By Design (was Re: Numbers)

    > 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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