# How do you do non-whole numbers in bases other than 10?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-non-whole-numbers-in-bases-other-than-10/450072 "2008-05-21T04:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-non-whole-numbers-in-bases-other-than-10/450072/21 "2008-05-21T21:23:49Z")

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In fact, let me make **Indistinguishable** ’s Conjecture right now: Every irrational algebraic number is non-normal.

Grounds: Well, _c’mon_… If there were a counterexample, we’d have demonstrated it by now, right? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-non-whole-numbers-in-bases-other-than-10/450072/22 "2008-05-22T13:50:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]

… it is not enough to simply note that the rationals have smaller cardinality than the irrationals. This would be enough were one to assume [Donald] [Martin’s Axiom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%27s_axiom) …

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Gosh, I had no idea Mad magazine’s Don Martin dabbled in set theory. I guess the cartooning was just his day job?  
_BING CHIKA-CHUNK THWIZZIK ZAK TIKA TIKA TIKA TIKA … SKAPLUNCH_

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