Conjecture: There is a procedure for finding a place-value representation of any positive real number such that the choice of base, and perhaps a secondary representation, yields an infinite number of fours.
there's always the rather trippy bailey-borwein-plouffe formula that allows you to compute any digit of pi without computing preceding decimals... but it only works in base 16.
Coming soon to a golf coding exercise?
there's already a stack overflow thread https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/312640/how-to-solve-for-the-fouriest-number
It's been added to OEIS already https://oeis.org/A268236
Lol.
I once saw a movie that was named Le Thé au harem d'Archimède.
I'm accepting this as canon.
I dont think it's pronounced the way this comic implies it is.
I think it's
fr·ee·ayI always pronounced it Four-yey
Conjecture: There is a procedure for finding a place-value representation of any positive real number such that the choice of base, and perhaps a secondary representation, yields an infinite number of fours.
I bet there's some kind of crazy phenomenon that happens to the bases when you do that. And there's definitely an ^(pi * i) in there.
there's always the rather trippy bailey-borwein-plouffe formula that allows you to compute any digit of pi without computing preceding decimals... but it only works in base 16.