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by drob518 163 days ago
Okay, fair. It just seemed to me to have pretty limited utility.
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Hm who cares about utility in this case?
Well, if we don’t care about utility I could define infinitely many transcendental numbers with no utility other than I just made them up. The number that is the concatenation of the digits of all prime numbers in sequence, for instance: 0.23571113171923… I christen this Dave’s Number. (It probably already has a name, but I’m stealing it.) Let’s add it to the list. Now we can define Dave’s Second Number as the first prime added to Dave’s Number: 2.235711131723… Dave’s Third Number is the second prime added to Dave’s Number: 3.235711131723… Since we’re cataloguing numbers with no utility, let’s add them all to the list.
The list was for famous numbers. Yours might get there, but not so fast.
But it is definitely in the list of Aleph-1 Most Famous Transcendental Numbers.

So there's that.