On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yahoo mail messed up the formatting, so here is a corrected version.
Gelfond?Schneider theorem:? If a and b are algebraic numbers with a???0,1 and if b is not a rational number, then any value of a^b is a transcendental number.
The digest option turns all non-ASCII characters into question marks. As such, I recommend avoiding non-ASCII characters on this list.
I don't think that's the problem. I'm pretty sure that the digest is encoded in UTF-8 (or can be -- it might be a mailman option.) Especially for math stuff, Unicode is a big improvement over ASCII. Restricting to ASCII would be fairly unpleasant. I read the digest and Gene's zetas came through just fine. I usually use Pine (actually Alpine Vers. 2.11) on Linux to read mail. I had to tweak a few things to get it right, but once everyone (mailman, pine, terminal emulator) agreed that UTF-8 was the appropriate text representation, everything just started working. I also read the math-fun digest on my iPhone (the opposite end of the email reading technology curve) occasionally, and that mostly works fine too. -- Tom Duff. If I could speak English, I would lecture the loud foreigners on the train.