Re: pi
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 18, 2001, 6:30 |
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En réponse à Samuel Rivier <samuelriv@...>:
> FYI Carl Sagan said in Contact (the book, not the
> movie which IMHO somewhat mutates the original theme
> the book intended) that pi in base 11 at the 1 million
> or billion or somewhere in betweenth digit goes into a
> series of 1s and 0s, which he said form a perfect
> circle on a perfect square bit map.
>
IIRC, it was at the 10 to the power of I don't remember which big number that
this happened. Extremely far from what we have now.
> "The artist has left his signature"
>
> Obviously it is fiction, but I'd like to make a
> program on my computer and see for myself. Anyone
> wanna try with me?
>
Well, what kind of computer do you have, a Cray? :)) But it would be a strange
coincidence if such kind of thing was true :) . You never know, maybe at the
10^1000 decimal of e there is the secret of immortality!
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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