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Re: pi + e
Posted:
Nov 16, 2004 8:00 AM
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"G.A." <smNOecklSPAMers@hotmTHANKSail.com> writes:
> "Robert Israel" <israel@math.ubc.ca> wrote in message
> <a href="news://cncjt1$gb9$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...">news://cncjt1$gb9$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...</a>
> > In article <LsqdncyEcPWZTQTcRVnyhA@casema.nl>,
> > Thinus Pollard <thinusp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Given the above, what's the difference between irrational and
> > >transcendal numbers? I read, only a few days ago, e is transcendal, pi
> > >is transcendal, but it's unknown if pi + e is. Are these two concepts
> > >related?
> >
> > The word is "transcendental", not "transcendal". A number x is
> > transcendental if there is no polynomial of degree at least 1
> > with rational coefficients that has x as a root. All transcendental
> > numbers are irrational, but not all irrational numbers are
> > transcendental.
> >
>
> Also, 100% of real numbers are transcendental.
Almost all != all.
Phil
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