A set
in a first-countable space is dense in if , where is the set of limit points of . For example, the rational numbers are dense in the reals.
In general, a subset of
is dense if its set closure .
A real number
is said to be -dense
iff, in the base- expansion of , every possible finite string of consecutive digits appears.
If is -normal, then is also -dense. If, for some ,
is -dense, then is irrational. Finally, is -dense
iff the sequence is dense (Bailey and Crandall 2001, 2003).
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