Henry Goodman adjusted his tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to
write:

Yes. I think in the 18th century. (Hardy's "Pure Mathematics " says
that pi was proved to be transcendental by Lambert in1761)

Whoops! apologise are in order ( total brain fart here :) was thinking
back to another discussion which had nothing at all to do with pi, my
lonely brain cell must have gone off on another tangent :)

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Mark
Iligitimi Non Carborundum!
Twixt hill and high water, N.Wales, UK
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