"Strong typing vs. strong testing" [OT]

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 13 23:40:27 EDT 2010


On Oct 13, 12:31 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
0.2141693770623265
>
> Perhaps this will help illustrate what I'm talking about... the
> mathematician Mitchell Feigenbaum discovered in 1975 that, for a large
> class of chaotic systems, the ratio of each bifurcation interval to the
> next approached a constant:
>
> δ = 4.66920160910299067185320382...
>

And yet nobody can recite this equally interesting ratio to thousands
of digits:

 0.2141693770623265...



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