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I'm not a mathematician, but I read a lot of time ago that since pi is infinite but not periodic, you shold be able to find in it any sequence you want, given i
by DeusExMachina 17y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but I read a lot of time ago that since pi is infinite but not periodic, you shold be able to find in it any sequence you want, given infinite time to search in it.
This is what I remember, but I could be wrong.
- zackattack 17y agoYou can't find 1/9 in pi. 1/9 precludes the possibility of any other sequence.
- staticshock 17y agoI think the parent was talking about sequences of digits, i.e. integers, not just "any rational number"
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- alphaBetaGamma 17y agoThe statement (infinite && not periodic) ==> (any finite sequence is in it) is not true. \a number could have a decimal expansion that is not periodic but does not include certain digits. E.g: write Pi in binary and consider the same sequence of 0's and 1's as a number in decimal