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Paper 4, Section I, 2F2 F2F

Topics in Analysis | Part II, 2009

State Liouville's theorem on approximation of algebraic numbers by rationals, and use it to prove that the number

∑n=0∞110n!\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{10^{n !}}n=0∑∞​10n!1​

is transcendental.

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