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Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) me at privacy.net
Tue Mar 18 19:43:40 EST 2003


Erik Max Francis wrote:
> But, as I said, in any case, pi is _suspected_ of being normal, but it
> is not yet known to be.

Just out of curiosity, has any other irrational
number (other than ones specially constructed to
be so) been proved normal?

And what are the grounds for suspecting pi to
be normal? Is it just "we don't have any particular
reason to think it isn't", or is there more to
it?

Cheerfully-getting-further-and-further-off-topic-ly,

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg





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