Re: [math-fun] Question about uniform distribution (mod 1) of a sequence

Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:

It was especially the famous case of 163 that got me thinking:

I first heard of it in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the April 1975 Scientific American, in which he claimed that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) had recently been proven to be an integer. It was a joke article, and made several other equally false but vaguely plausible claims.