Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 12:17 |
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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. :-)
FYI, \pi in octal would be:
3.110375524210264302151423063050560067016321122011160210514763...
**Henrik