Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Rik Roots <rikroots@...> writes:
> > And base 8 may have some advantages over base 10 (I tried working out
> > the value of pi in base 8 - I think it comes out at 3.1111continuing,
>
>Oh, oh!  No!  \pi being irrational means that in *no* system that is
>based on constant division by a rational number, the number \pi can
>ever look `nice' (i.e., regularly patterned).
>
>You could of course use a system that is base \pi, in which case, \pi
>would be 1.  But this system seems to have some severe disadvantages
>to me. :-)
While the concept of base pi have always attracted me, it should be possible
to find a base in which pi is 3.11111111 for the n first digits. Digit no
n+1 would, of course, be something else. This base would, of course, be at
least as useless as base pi.

                                                   Andreas

BTW, pi would be 10 in base pi! 1 is the same in all bases.

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