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Sunday 7 April 2013

Pi in the sky?

Ponder this.

pi

Spooky or what?

3.14159265359…………………………………… (And the rest)

8 comments:

  1. NO. I'm too lazy at the moment. Maybe next week.

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  2. I hate to rain on your parade but just because pi is an infinite sequence (a transcendental number even), doesn't necessarily mean that it contains every possible combination of digits.
    From wikipedia:
    “The digits appear to be randomly distributed, although no proof of this has yet been discovered.“

    Tony

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  3. Hmmmm - if you have an infinitely long Pi, or any other number, it would take an infinite amount of time to find ALL the representations that do, or do not, "appear" in it.

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  4. it would take an infinite amount of time to find ALL the representations that do, or do not, "appear" in it

    And when you did, I bet they'd be in an inconvenient compression format.

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  5. The quote contains: "... and the answers to all the great questions of the universe ..."

    I dispute this: on two grounds.

    Firstly, it implies there are only a finite number of great questions.

    Secondly, it implies that the answer to every question is finite. And surely 'what is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle' is a great question!

    Best regards

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  6. Sounds a bit like monkeys, Shakespeare and typewriters to me. But I like it all the same.

    Daedalus

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  7. Eh, sounds like a load of fanny batter to me Sir. I expect a full exposition of your hypothesis by the end of the working day........

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