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1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Coincidence?

Author : Keith Devlin

Published in: Micro-Maths

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

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What are the three most common special ‘constants’ of mathematics? The most obvious one is n, of course, the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter. The number 7r is irrational (that is, its decimal expansion continues indefinitely without settling down to any repetitive pattern), beginning with

Metadata
Title
Coincidence?
Author
Keith Devlin
Copyright Year
1984
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07936-0_10

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