Re: Irrational numbers

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From: Stein Kulseth
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:44

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In article <19723.2b6495ca@ecs.umass.edu>, padmanab@ecs.umass.edu writes:
|> Here is an interesting puzzle concerning 
|> irrational numbers: 
|> 
|> Can you find two IRRATIONAL NUMBERS P and Q such that 
|> 
|>                     Q 
|>                    P  =  rational? 
|> 
|> HAVE FUN!
|> 
|> -Prasad Padmanabhan
|> Dept. of ECE
|> University of Massachusetts
|> Amherst MA 01003

e and ln2
-- 
stein.kulseth@nta.no (Norwegian Telecom Research)
   'When murders are committed by mathematics, they can be solved by
   mathematics. Most of them aren't, and this one wasn't'
   - Nick Charles (Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man")

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