View Single Post
Old 03-28-2005, 10:23 AM   #8 (permalink)
raveneye
Born Against
 
raveneye's Avatar
 
Quote:
zen_tom: there are plenty of rational numbers which, when expressed in decimal form, are infinitely long. 1/3, for example.
Yep. But the unique sequence of digits is never infinitely long. If the unique sequence of digits is infinitely long (i.e. without any periodicity) then the number has to be irrational.
raveneye is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37