[FOM] Wittgenstein's '770' in pi

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

2007/7/15, Harold Teichman <hteichman at comcast.net>:
> Hilary Putnam, in several recent essays, has discussed Wittgenstein's
> perhaps naïve puzzlement over the sense of assertions like "the sequence of
> digits '770' must appear somewhere in the decimal expansion of pi" [see e.g.
> Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, 2nd Ed., p. 266].

In http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/ there is no
reference to 770 but to 777.  Also, in Victor Rodych's
"Wittgenstein on Irrationals and Algorithmic Decidability"
(see http://www.springerlink.com/content/u54u44430088641t/) there is no
reference to 770 but only to 777. And these are just two sources that discuss
this ``problem.''

Regards,
A.S.

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