Today I successfully used Shamos's catalog of the real numbers! (https://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/faculty/mshamos/cat.pdf)
but the number I was looking up was 𝑒 − 2, which I really should have recognised...
Christian Lawson-Perfect
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2026-08-18 13:33:00 UTC
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