> 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.
>
>
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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
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