Nth digit of PI

[Jan Kristian Haugland]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Boris Borcic wrote:

> Jan Kristian Haugland wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jeff Massung wrote:
> > 
> > > Please, this interests me -- I've had differention equations, but that's as
> > > far as I go. In theory, pi (and e) are infinite, but has that been proven
> > > that there is not end to their decimals?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > 
> > Someone else already answered your question, but what
> > do you mean by "in theory, pi and e are infinite"?
> 
> Come on, it can obviously be defended as a shorthand for :
> 
> "In theory, an exact decimal representation of pi and e
>  would be of infinite length".
> 
> Together with :
> 
> "I am not familiar with other meanings of 'infinite'
>  applied to numerical values"
> 
> A legitimate state of affair, wouldn't you say ?
> 
> BB

Yes, it's natural to expect that the statement "pi is
infinite" means "a decimal representation of pi would
be of infinite length", but the problem is that that
already answers the question he was posing. Perhaps
"in theory" here means something strange.