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| (...) Yah. I actually was getting excited over the similarity in syntax; I hadn't even thought of the need for indexing such a huge database as LUGNET. BTW, what kind of scanner are you using for the index builder? Does it just break apart words (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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| Do put your oar in Simon, I think you're making some good points (...) Knowing deep in your inner being what something means, and being able to use it to make predictions, are two different things. I won't pretend to understand quanta, or (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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| (...) Well, since transcendentals are a subset of the irrationals, so there's no way that transcendentals can constitute a bigger infinity than the irrationals. All transcendentals are irrational (but the converse isn't true). pi is transcendental (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes: <Massive snip> (...) You mean the transcendental numbers, presumably? I seem to recall reading that practically every number along the real number line is transcendental, with just odd blips where you (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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| (...) I know; I shamelessly took advantage of selective snipping. :) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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| (...) You know that, and I know that. But John, being a mac user, doesn't. :-) Just kidding. But I, right after that, did express it in decimal, exactly. It's just not a non-repeating decimal. He didn't say it couldn't repeat... (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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| (...) But that's not _dec_imal, which implies base 10. (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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| (...) Whoops. I misspoke. Yes, you can actually manipulate infinite numbers in many (not all) cases, but the example of sqrt(8)/sqrt(2)=2 isn't an example of manipulating infinite numbers. Those numbers are finite, of course -- but perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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| Plowing though .debate and a couple numbers caught my eye! (below) (...) Larry, IMBW, but I think John might've meant "pi" when he said "22/7" -- at least, I know I've heard people accidentally refer to pi in that manner before. John, pi = (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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