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If you read the novel Contact by Carl Sagan (it's not in the movie) you get to find out what secret is hiding in PI's digits.
by BMc2020 4y ago
If you read the novel Contact by Carl Sagan (it's not in the movie) you get to find out what secret is hiding in PI's digits.
- Tao3300 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/10 https://xkcd.com/10
- jonah 4y agoAlso reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2170/ https://xkcd.com/2170/
- nadavision 4y agoObligatory "there truly is an xkcd for everything."
- bumblebritches5 4y ago
- andreareina 4y agoThat ending filled me with such a feeling of wonder as a kid. Even now, and that's understanding the implication of pi very likely being normal.
- Scarblac 4y agoIf pi is normal, it contains all possible secrets encoded within it, right? Including copies of that book in various languages. It's Borges' library.
- 2-718-281-828 4y agoBut it also contains all possible contradictions and negations of all possible secrets - so, you don't know which is the "true" secret.
- corsac 4y agoI love this response. Deflates the enchantment right out of Borges' library (and Nietzsche's eternal return, and fantasies about mystical significance of pi), which always bothered me somehow anyway.
- quickthrower2 4y agoOr the typewriter’s monkey