13 Oct
2013
13 Oct
'13
12:25 p.m.
Keith F. Lynch: "No, the digits of seventeen *in base pi*, 120.220021101020230020003… This of course never repeats or terminates." MathWorld's article on 'base' cautions that "the representation of a given integer in an irrational base may be nonunique" (but this is true also of integer bases: 1=.999… in base ten). More relevant perhaps is the issue of normalcy. My understanding of the concept is that it cannot be applied to irrational bases. What then is the frequency distribution of the digits (0, 1, 2, 3) of seventeen in base pi?