Is the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant transcendental in any integer base $b>2$

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The Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant, defined as

$$
\tau =\sum _{{i=0}}^{{\infty }}{\frac {t_{i}}{2^{{i+1}}}}=0.412454033640\ldots
$$

where the $t_i$ are elements of the Thue-Morse sequence, is transcendental. But is

$$
\tau_b =\sum _{{i=0}}^{{\infty }}{\frac {t_{i}}{b^{{i+1}}}}
$$

also transcendental, for $b>2$?

Best Answer

The answer is of course yes, see the MaothOverflow post here.