Re: Possreps and numeric types

On Mar 27, 4:29 am, "David BL" <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 1:30 am, "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > ... because the radius
> > is sqrt(1^2+1^2) = sqrt(2) = a transcendental number.
> > Since transcendentals have an infinite number of
> > nonrepeating digits (think pi) they are not representable
> > as a digit sequence in base 2, base 10, or otherwise.
>
> sqrt(2) is irrational but not transcendental.

D'oh! Of course it's not.

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

Marshall Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 17:27:57 CEST