Given p in N^+,p>1, find irrational numbers r such that the set of all numbers of the form {r⋅p^n}, where n∈N and {x}:=x−[x], is dense in (0,1).

Aydin Jarvis

Aydin Jarvis

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2022-10-29

Given p N + , p > 1, find irrational numbers r such that the set of all numbers of the form { r p n }, where n N and { x } := x [ x ], is dense in ( 0 , 1 ).

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Martha Dickson

Martha Dickson

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Enumerate and concatenate all finite sequences over the alphabet { 0 , , p 1 } and interprete that as a base- p decimal. Form example, with p = 10 we might take
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