From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!thf Newsgroups: net.math Title: Integer PI and E Article-I.D.: whuxlb.382 Posted: Thu Aug 5 21:57:46 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 06:26:27 1982 The Hermite-Lindemann theorem says that if a is algebraic over the rationals and not 0, then exp(a) is transcendental. Hence, 2*pi*i/e is transcendental and so is pi/e. If pi and e were integers in some number system, then pi/e would have to be rational, a contradiction. Tom Foregger, BTL WH x2358