Re: BigDecimal and trigonometrics

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:56:02 GMT, Jeffrey Schwab
<jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

> But can you please point me to an irrational number
>that cannot be derived by a sequence of mathematical operations on
>rational numbers?

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