Re: Easy question: WHICH LIST CONTAINS MORE DIGITS OF Pi?

From: Ed Murphy (emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:11:04 GMT

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:11:39 -0800, Joseki wrote:

> First, Herc is wrong, willl not be clear or listen to reason. 'nuff said.
>
> However, this is a math discussion so it is important to pick at the nits.
>
> When ed sez:
>
>>1) The question pertains to pi, or (more generally) a real number with
>
>> infinite decimal expansion (i.e. cannot be expressed as X*10^Y
> where
>> X and Y are both integers).
>
> I must speak up. The phase outside of the brakets is NOT equivalent to
> that following his "i.e.". This is best seen with a counter example:
> 0.99999... is an infinite decimal expansion. However, it is recognized by
> the mathematics community that it is equal (exactly!) to 1.0.
[snip]

All right, "necessarily infinite", then. I believe all the problem cases
are of the form <integer> + 0.99999...

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