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Re: pi

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, October 18, 2001, 17:25
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...
It's perhaps not the same site, but I once found a site that claimed to do that, but was complete bogus. It didn't even get the sequence "1415" right. Evidently it mangled the numbers you typed in according to some algorithm, since it consistently gave the same outdata to the same indata. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp