Re: pi

Its something like 3 + 1/3 - 1/5 + 1/7 - 1/9.... or something along those
lines. Quite interesting.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Dunn" <tb0pwd1@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: pi


> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, D Tse wrote:
>
> > <<
> >
> > Well, supposed the sequence of digits in pi is more or less random
> > there will be
> > a probability of one for EVERY pattern to occur (most of them of
> > course VERY
> > late).
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > >>
> >
> > Quite true, actually... there's a site on the Internet (I don't have
> > the site on hand, though) that lets you type in a set of numbers and
> > it tells you where in pi they can be located. All numbers should be
> > in there somewhere if one looks hard enough...
> >
> > Imperative
>
> I said this to a number of mathematicians, and they beat me severely.
> Evidently this is a common misconception.  First of all, the digits of pi
> are not "random."  They showed me the proof, and although I cannot
> reproduce it, I was convinced.
>
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