87 points · 32 comments · 12 years ago · gburt
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cschmidt
Someone actually wrote a paper on the properties of these numbers: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2348
This is the second time in a week I'm mentioning Carl Sagan in a comment. I'll stop doing that now.
pjungwir
> All possible finite files must exist within π.
> The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.
I'm surprised to hear this, since I had a buddy in high school in the early 90s who insisted on the same thing. Even then I could see the problem was storing the offset & length of the desired sequence would be worse than storing the sequence itself. This friend was brilliant, but he had a history of crazy half-joking ideas. He insisted the natural numbers don't exist, since you have to cross an infinite range of real numbers to get from 0 to 1.gfody
Mgccl
gmuslera
In 100 millons of digits of pi there is less than 1% of chances of finding a given 10 character string. Probably mankind wasnt on earth enough time to have calculated yet the amounts of digits that would imply finding there something big with high chances.
goshx
I think we should have more April Fools along the year. My favorite "project" so far is still RFC2549.
enriquepablo
myang
lutusp
Also, not only is it true that any imaginable sequence appears in Pi, but it appears there an infinite number of times.
e1ven
cedias
bloodorange
Duhveed
greglindahl
reader5000
PabloOsinaga
denebious
redshirtrob
stuartcoope
steveinator