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It's not that mind-boggling. In general we need to use specific properties of numbers to prove whether they are irrational, and pi+e has very few useful propert
by SOTGO 3y ago
It's not that mind-boggling. In general we need to use specific properties of numbers to prove whether they are irrational, and pi+e has very few useful properties to work from. Even proving pi is irrational is not trivial and it is one of the transcendental numbers we know the most about.
- xanderlewis 3y ago> we need to use specific properties of numbers to prove whether they are irrational Indeed, one could say that all we know about numbers are their properties. A number is just an existence assertion about an object fulfilling some property (possibly uniquely).