Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: general

Topic: Mathlib trivia question (difficulty: hard maybe)


Mason McBride (Nov 22 2023 at 01:20):

Does anyone know the lean video seminar/video on youtube that discusses the syntax of the liouville number? I want a link to watch that talk again. File: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/c6979569edc545f999b82d8a833b190c918aec2e/Mathlib/NumberTheory/Liouville/LiouvilleNumber.lean

Mason McBride (Nov 22 2023 at 01:23):

def liouvilleNumber (m : ℝ) : ℝ :=
∑' i : ℕ, 1 / m ^ i !

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Kevin Buzzard (Nov 22 2023 at 01:23):

Are you really asking about the syntax of this number? What do you mean?

Mason McBride (Nov 22 2023 at 01:24):

There was a talk where the speaker discussed the "shortcuts" that lean is using to make the syntax clean and I want to see it again.

Mason McBride (Nov 22 2023 at 01:24):

what's the apostrophe on the sigma

Mason McBride (Nov 22 2023 at 01:26):

The answer to my trivia question is the link to the youtube video

Kevin Buzzard (Nov 22 2023 at 08:15):

If you have that lean code running in VS Code on your machine then you can hover over the apostrophe to find out what it means. In this case I think it means that Sigma was already taken to mean sum over a finite set so new notation was needed for convergent infinite sum.


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