[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Steven Schweda]

> > Why would a pre-med biology major care about transcendental numbers?

> They'll care when they get to Organic Chem and have to deal with lots of
> sqrt(2) and sqrt(3) stuff. 

   I never took organic or physical chemistry, so I don't know why/where
such square roots might appear (especially in organic chem), but...

   A calculator can do square roots whether or not the operator knows
whether the result is transcendental.  As illustrated by the fact that
those particular square roots are irrational, but algebraic, not
transcendental.

   I rest my case.