Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:19 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
Interesting kind of mindset, that assumes that the opposite of "real" must
be "integer" or a subset thereof...
No, but since PI (and e) are both transcendentals, there is NO
representation (except by the symbols themselves) which is NOT an
approximation.
Sure there are; you can just use other symbolic representations. In
fact, there are trivially an infinite number of them; e, e^1, 1/(1/e), e
+ 1 - 1, e + 2 - 2, etc.
Even if you restrict yourself to base-b expansions (for which the
statement is true for integer bases), you can cheat there too: e is 1
in base e.
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