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Mar 14, 2008 07:05

Happy Pi Day, everybody!

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simonbob March 14 2008, 12:57:56 UTC
I refuse to celebrate until 26 seconds after 1:59. :D

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amzrigh March 14 2008, 13:05:17 UTC
But 1:59am has already passed, and 1:59pm is more like 13:59.

...of course, you can't really have 15:92, either.

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simonbob March 14 2008, 13:47:30 UTC
Bah! It'll be 1:59 somewhere.

Besides, pi is an infinite series, so I could celebrate Mid-Pi Day on, say, June 26th at 4:33. That's about 20 digits in, but any date and time should theoretically exist in there. Kinda like an unbirthday.

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afe_coda March 14 2008, 14:07:57 UTC
Actually, just because pi is transcendental doesn't mean that it necessarily contains every sequence within it. I saw a proof for it once.

Short version: What we know of pi includes all of the digits from 0 to 9. But you can still have a non-repeating infinite sequence using all of the digits from 0 to 8 -- in other words, if 9 were to suddenly disappear from pi after a few million digits, pi would still be transcendental, but no sequence containing 9 would ever be found after the first few million digits.

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simonbob March 14 2008, 14:45:08 UTC
What?! B-but -- why would pi lie to me? :(

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