3 ms·
It is, as far as being a math problem, somewhat boring. The numbers themselves are equivalent to a random number. There is certainly no significance to the nu
by sponaugle 2y ago
It is, as far as being a math problem, somewhat boring. The numbers themselves are equivalent to a random number. There is certainly no significance to the numbers themselves, especially as this is all in the decimal representation, which is very 'us' specific.
It does represent something 'interesting' that is easy to observe and wonder about, and for the non-math person it leads to slightly better understanding of 'normal' numbers, of the difference in representation ( these answers are base specific), and a very small amount of simple computer science.
The notion of world record is of course tongue in cheek. No one really needs to know these numbers, nor will they rememeber them! But at least there is an entry in OEIS!
- bee_rider 2y agoWRT significance, do people ever find the position of socially significant numbers in pi? For example I recall quite a while ago, there was a leak of the key that was used to encrypt blue rays. Hypothetically that could be found in pi, right? Of course, it ended up being spread widely enough that they gave up on trying to police it. But maybe there are some other not-allowed numbers that could be distributed as a position in pi? I’m not sure what the point would be, mostly just to make a point I guess.
- zimpenfish 2y agohttps://www.angio.net/pi/ https://www.angio.net/pi/ lets you search for sequences of up to 120 digit in the first 200M digits of pi. I'm sure there's others knocking around that might go further.