Re: BigDecimal and trigonometrics


Roedy Green wrote:
> 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?
>
> The time until George Bush's death in microseconds from noon UTC
> today.

Nice one. :)

Choose a random number uniformly between 0.0 and 1.0.
It will almost surely be uncomputable.

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