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The only way that double(pi) - pi could be much smaller is if pi magically had a lot of 0s in its binary representation (it doesn't).

Yes, this is what I was getting at. Obviously the statement is true for pi and the majority of reals; I just don't understand why it should be a rule as the article implies.



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