malcolm (08/01/82)
#N:pur-ee:6600003:000:499 pur-ee!malcolm Aug 1 03:17:00 1982 I'm sure all of you have seen a version of the test that ask you to do extremely unreasonable things....Eg. Medicine: You have ten minutes to sterilize your pocket knife and perform an appendectamy on yourself.... My favorite question has been the Math question. It usually goes something like this: Math: Develop a numbering system such that 'e' and 'pi' are integers. Is this really so unreasonable? I can't decide based on the Math that I have had. Malcolm Slaney Purdue EE Dept.
holland (08/05/82)
#R:pur-ee:6600003:uiucdcs:10300005:000:161 uiucdcs!holland Aug 4 19:18:00 1982 You'd have to find a common (although irrational) divisor of e and pi, which means that e/pi would have to be rational. Has anyone proved anything about (e/pi)?