Re: a few questions for you was Re: 150 years without Gauss

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:53:36 GMT

"guenther.vonKnakspott@gmx.de" <apacur@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1109104056.258646.171260@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> <snip>
> Now Blumschein, let's have it your way for a few minutes. No Reals.
> So according to Blumscheins mathworld give us:
>
> a) The decimal expansion of PI.
> b) The decimal expansion of sqrt(2)
> c) The solution to sqrt(2)*sqrt(2) (please substitute sqrt(2) with your
> answer to b)
> d) The solution to 1/(2-sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)) (please substitute sqrt(2)
> with your answer to b)
>
> Don't come back to whine until you have pertinent answers.

I think mr. Blumthing is one of those people who think that
    "the limit for n to infinity of a sum of n terms"
really is
    "an infinite sum of terms"
It is very difficult to talk to people like that.

Dirk Vdm

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