[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-03-17 17:34, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

Right. Of course there are many ways of doing computations that will 
give pi.

But I don't think it's that helpful to just show some method of how pi 
can be computed. I think talking about the definition is what is more 
interesting.

Otherwise we're talking about infinite series of sums. Which is just 
approximations in reality, since you will never compute the final value 
of an infinite series...

   Johnny