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To: Doctor Stochastic
Indeed. I was agreeing with you (or at least that was my intention.)
145 posted on 09/30/2003 6:34:50 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
I find it to be very interesting. One can prove that "almost all" numbers are normal, but the only examples of normal numbers are "artificially" constructed. Also, none of the usual suspects (pi, e, Sqrt(2), Log(2), etc.) have been shown to be normal.

The whole topic of normal numbers is rather deep and the proofs can be difficult. One example is that although one can prove that "almost all" numbers are normal to any base, there are uncountably many numbers normal to one base and not normal to others.

150 posted on 09/30/2003 6:58:55 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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