Timeline for Can Liouville's number be expressed as a physical ratio in the sense that $\pi$ is?
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| Dec 20, 2012 at 5:33 | history | edited | intuilog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2012 at 8:08 | answer | added | ACL | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 6:30 | comment | added | Benjamin Dickman | There's probably an interesting question here, but perhaps you should be more specific about just what exactly you are allowing to be done physically. I realize that with a ruler and compass you can draw a curve whose length is $\pi$. What precisely is one allowed to do here in creating geometric objects? Are you admitting any curve length (or ratio of curve lengths) that can be constructed with a ruler and compass? | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 4:39 | history | asked | intuilog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |