Excellent! Thanks for spotting this and bringing it to our
attention. I like his conclusion:
"More speculatively, one might consider the possibility
that the values of the integers could vary with time, a result
suggested by several early Fortran simulations. This
possibility would have obvious implications for finance
and accounting."
Kirk
On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:01 AM, gordon brown wrote:
> I don't have time to read this right now, but maybe some physicist
> can tell us what it is all about. My quick glance at it made it
> appear that it was in the context of string theory and that it said
> that some dimensionless constant pi might vary with time and help
> to explain the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Maybe
> ten seconds of skimming isn't enough for me to have given the
> correct description.
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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