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#26 2014-08-05 00:46:38

Agnishom
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Re: Transcendental numbers

I am fascinated by that too. Shouldn't it be


Instead?


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#27 2014-08-05 01:05:25

Bob
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Re: Transcendental numbers

I went to a lot of trouble to get those curly brackets.  Took four or five tries with the Latex.  Sob, sob.

In set notation 'language' a pair of curly brackets means 'the set of'*, so I think my version translates as

The set of integers is a proper subset of the set of rationals.

I take it you are interpreting my version as

The set containing the set of integers etc.

You may be right, but it's only notation.  In my mathematics I define the correct notation as being the one I am using.  smile

Bob

* as in

means "The set of values of x such that x is real and greater than 3."


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#28 2014-08-05 01:15:02

Agnishom
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Re: Transcendental numbers

You should use the codecogs page


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