RE: fraclib.e

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> From: jbrown1050 at hotpop.com [mailto:jbrown1050 at hotpop.com]

> P.S. I know Pi is not irrational, but if its several trillion 
> digits long,
> I doubt that many people would want to compute that much in a home PC.

In fact, pi *is* irrational.  There are no integers a and b such that pi = a
/ b.  Beyond that, pi is transcendental (as opposed to algegbraic).  This
means that pi cannot be exactly described by any polynomial (i.e., sqrt(2)
can be described by x^2 - 2 = 0 -- it is *irrational*, but *not*
transcendental).

Matt Lewis

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