From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2009-11-17T13:57:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Trajectories

On 11/16/09, Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Caleb Clausen wrote:
>> ... transcendentals can also be represented exactly by formulae with a
>> finite number of bits:
>
> Doesn't that depend on the transcendental?
[snip]
> "Most" real numbers are both transcendental and non computable.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number
>   ...  almost all real and complex numbers are transcendental ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
>   ...  almost all real numbers are not computable ...

When I said 'transcendental', I meant a transcendental which is not
incomputable. Just as when Marnen said 'irrational', he meant an
irrational which is not transcendental.