Talk:Yasumasa Kanada/Archive 1

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Lack of references for "pi having finite length" claim

Have professor Kandra published his results on pi consisting of only 1.3511 trillion digits in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal? A couple of news article links is not enough to convince me in this case. --Fredrik Orderud 00:21, 9 May 2005 (UTC) Pi is an irrational number and its decimal expansion will continue forever, Kanada has merely claimed to know the first 1.2 trillion decimal places of Pi.

Inconsistency with "irrational number" and "finite length" claims

This pi article claims that pi is a irrational number, while this article claims that pi has a finite length of 1.3511 trillion digits. Both of these claims can not be true, since finite length implies pi being a rational number, which can be expressed as a ratio of two integers:

\pi = \frac{3 \; 141 \; 592 \; ...}{10^{1 \; 351 \; 100 \; 000 \; 000} }

I'm tagging this article disputed until this inconsistency have been properly adressed. --Fredrik Orderud 09:13, 9 May 2005 (UTC)