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Re: pi

From:Martin Hinsch <martin@...>
Date:Thursday, October 18, 2001, 8:09
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:30:14AM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> 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
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 -- martin.hinsch@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de 09554 / 922321 0931 / 4045858 Oekologische Station der Universitaet Wuerzburg Glashuettenstrasse 5 96181 Rauhenebrach Germany