The funny thing is that pi's decimal digits have very nice "random" properties (e.g. asymptotically uniform distribution), but it's extremely compressible. Whi

The funny thing is that pi's decimal digits have very nice "random" properties (e.g. asymptotically uniform distribution), but it's extremely compressible. Which partly explains why it turns up more often than most other transcendentals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_probability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_probability