"How I wish I could calculate pi." "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics," become "Who recalls dispassionately a <292-letter word>?" (Followed by three one-letter words.) --rwg On 2016-05-22 13:01, rwg wrote:

On 2016-05-22 09:03, Veit Elser wrote:

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Really? I would have thought base-10 has a special place in your heart. After all, in what base is the entropy per digit closest to the entropy per term in the continued fraction expansion?

-Veit

Eleven! In[709]:= π^2/6/Log[2]/Log[{10, 11}]

Out[709]= {π^2/(6 Log[2] Log[10]), π^2/(6 Log[2] Log[11])}

In[710]:= N@%

Out[710]= {1.030640834100713, 0.9896755074135375}

Sagan's "Contact" was onto something?

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On May 22, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:

I'm the same way.

Amen. Especially base-10 stuff puts me to sleep immediately,

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like drinking a cup of decaf coffee.

—Dan