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The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
by oatsandsugar 10mo ago
The "choose your date by selecting a substring of pi" is absolutely incredible.
- infogulch 10mo agoI couldn't find my birthday in the first 10 or so pages, so I clicked "Give up" and searched the page for it. Said my pi index was in the 100,000s. Went back to the ui to select it manually and gave up after clicking fast for minutes and I hadn't even hit index 50,000.
- spacechild1 10mo agoHow do they prove that it is indeed possible to select any date? :)
- dmd 10mo agoBy search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
- sltkr 10mo agoBut the site only supports up to ~10 million digits! This seems like serious defect. How am I supposed to select dates before 01/01/1970 or after 31/12/2069?
- handoflixue 10mo agoIf you were born after 31/12/2069, I dare say you're the time traveler, so you can just go back in time and fix the UX yourself.
- Pooge 10mo agoWhat if it's the date I plan to marry my AI love companion?