[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Steven Schweda]

   Although I doubt the relevance to VMS of any of this digression, ...

> [...] I don't know much about biology but I suspect logarithms are
> used.

   Even if some knowledge of logarithms were required to get a biology
degree, which I doubt, someone can know plenty about logarithms without
knowing what a transcendental number might be.

   And you're getting the lyrics mixed up.  It's:

      Don't know much about history
      Don't know much biology
      [...]

   When it comes to formal education, I don't remember ever taking a
course in number theory, either, so I suspect that I first learned about
transcendental numbers (while in high school?) from a book by Martin
Gardner, obtained from the local public library, rather than from any
formal school work.  Which is one more reason I wouldn't expect a
typical high-school grad to have encountered the concept.

> [...] roots to polynomials with integer/rational coefficients. [...]

   Is that different from roots of polynomials with integer
coefficients?  (Hint: No.  And I can prove it.)