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 :

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

It has already been proved there are more irrational numbers that can
be put into 1-1 corresponding with integers, hence Strings. "Most" (in
the Lebesgue sense) irrationals cannot be described by a String. You
are dabbling in measure theory, which is pretty far removed from
computer science which is the study of finite numbers.


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