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Gelfond-Schneider Constant

The number $2^{\sqrt{2}}=2.66514414\ldots$ which is known to be Transcendental by Gelfond's Theorem.


References

Courant, R. and Robbins, H. What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, p. 107, 1996.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25