alt Hacker NewsPick a digit, repeat, don't stop.
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jibal • yesterday at 9:36 PM
At no point will your number be transcendental (or even irrational).
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techas • yesterday at 8:43 PM
And don’t die.
Pick a digit, repeat, don't stop.
At no point will your number be transcendental (or even irrational).
And don’t die.
Exactly right. You can pick and use real numbers, as long as they are only queried to finite precision. There are lots of super cool algorithms for doing this!