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Re: fraclib.e

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <eu.lue at gmx.de> Jan 22, 2003
• 463 views

Hello Matt and Jim!

Matt wrote:

>> 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).

ACK.

Jim, here are some formulas for you to calculate Pi:
   http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiFormulas.html

Beast regards,
   Juergen

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