Re: Hey CANTORIANS!! HOW MANY DIGITS?

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:12:15 GMT

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:53:03 +1000, "|-|erc" <h@r.c> wrote, in part:

>pi is computable here to _____ digits.

If one makes a list of all the numbers which can be written in
mathematical notation, pi will be on that list, and so it will be
"computable" in the mathematical sense, although not in practice, to an
infinite number of digits.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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