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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Re: square roots by hand or computer
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.120259.3155@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Mar 91 12:02:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.220523.6184@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Mar1.001103.6341@cec1.wustl.edu> <1991Mar14.113902.97@bsu-ucs.uucp> <1991Mar15.063023.6605@dsd.es.com> <Mar.15.19.50.47.1991.20615@math.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Mar.15.19.50.47.1991.20615@math.rutgers.edu> bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) writes:
>                  ...  The analytic theory allows the "digits" (called
>"partial quotients") of some other numbers (for example e) to be
>determined, but the expansion of pi or the cube root of 2 seems to be
>random.
>-- 
Oh, no! Not the R-word again!

Chris Thompson
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