[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <tv1ver$9ls$1 at news.misty.com>,
Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>On 2023-03-15 21:58, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Transcendental numbers are the real numbers that are
>> not algebraic. All the "weird" numbers like e, pi,
>> results from logarithmic or trigonometric functions (except
>> for a a few selected inputs).
>
>Am I confused? I was under the impression that pi comes from the 
>division of the diameter with the circumference of a circle.

It does but it ALSO is the sum of 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 - ....

Or it's tan-1 of 0.

It's everywhere you look.  It's pretty creepy.
--scott

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