On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:09:40 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Joel Yliluoma wrote:
>
>> There are 10.010000010010000000010000100001000100010000000010000100000001...
>> types of mathematicians: Those who understand base-(squareroot of 2)
>> and those who don't.
>
> I think 10.01 (base-phi) is more fun.

That would be 10.0011, wouldn't it?
Still, rather neat.

Hmm, actually 10.01 gives the same result.

bisqwit@chii:~$ bc -l
x=(1+sqrt(5))/2;
x^1+x^-3+x^-4
1.99999999999999999999
x^1+x^-2
1.99999999999999999999

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Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/

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