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To: Red Badger

In Carl Sagan’s book, “Contact”, he had a really interesting idea about PI. According to the book, there was a message embedded deep inside of Pi. Buried deep inside of Pi, in base 11, there was a large string of ones and zeros that could be structured to draw a picture of a circle.

Granted, that Pi most likely contains any arbitrary string of numbers, (I don’t think this has been proven) it’s actually likely that you could find something like this if you looked hard enough. Of course, the same could be said about ‘e’.


54 posted on 08/17/2021 12:50:43 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

I have never ever used ‘e’.................


55 posted on 08/17/2021 12:52:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: zeugma

Someone worked it out:
If you have as many digits of pi as there are particles in the universe, there is a ~50% chance of any given 300-bit sequence showing up.


59 posted on 08/17/2021 1:57:41 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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