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#26 2014-08-05 00:46:38
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
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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. 
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
Re: Transcendental numbers
You should use the codecogs page
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