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by michaelf 5071 days ago
Is it also the case that all transcendental numbers have approximations of unbounded quality? Or only that Liouville numbers have approximations of unbounded quality, and therefore cannot be algebraic?
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Liouville numbers have approximations of unbounded quality and thus cannot be algebraic. "Most" transcendental numbers only have finitely many approximations of quality higher than 2 + epsilon for any epsilon.