2017-04-13

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Can you produce a rational number by exchanging infinitely many digits of pi and e?

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Hierarchy of Infinities

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Original Post from Math Overflow

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/265310/if-i-exchange-infinitely-many-digits-of-pi-and-e-are-the-two-resulting-num

Square Root of 2 is Irrational

http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/square-root-2-irrational.html

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Thanks to Joel David Hampkins and Erin Carmody for helpful comments.

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