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What would it be the most repeating digit and at what position? Just curious.
by Entangled 8y ago
What would it be the most repeating digit and at what position? Just curious.
- brownbat 8y agoYou might have fun with this search engine: http://www.angio.net/pi/ http://www.angio.net/pi/
- johnhenry 8y agoI won't prove this here: for any digit, there exists an arbitrarily long sequence of the same digit repeating somewhere within infinite decimal expansion of Pi. Further, this happens infinitely throughout the expansion. Thus, when dealing with Pi exactly, this question does not have an answer. However, since we're dealing with such a limited representation of only a few trillion digits, this may have an answer... Edit: as @nightcracker points out, this is conjecture. It is not currently know as to whether or not Pi has that property. (I could have sworn I read a proof years back). Thanks for the correction. With that said, it's not know as to whether or not this question has an answer.
- nightcracker 8y agoYou won't prove this here because you do not have a proof. What you claim is in fact a conjecture and is not known to current day mathematics.
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- emilfihlman 8y agoWe don't know. I bet you could win some math price money if you proved PI had some sort of statistical structure.
- sandov 8y ago"The digits" in Pi will not give you relevant information. The universe doesn't care about the base of our numbering system, so if our system was octal the answer would be totally different and equally irrelevant. If there is a fundamental numbering system, then it's binary, but I don't think it makes much sense to analize the binary (floating point?) representation of Pi.
- a0-prw 8y agoThat's why I like continued fractions :)