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That reminds me of the ending of the novel/movie "Contact" by Carl Sagan. When calculating pi in base 11, there was an implausibly long run of 0's and 1's, whic
by cschmidt 13y ago
That reminds me of the ending of the novel/movie "Contact" by Carl Sagan. When calculating pi in base 11, there was an implausibly long run of 0's and 1's, which made a pretty picture when you plotted it in two dimensions. So if you entered that picture as your file, the file system would make a major discovery :-).
Someone actually wrote a paper on the properties of these numbers:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2348 http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2348
This is the second time in a week I'm mentioning Carl Sagan in a comment. I'll stop doing that now.
- xenophonf 13y agoYou can never mention Carl Sagan too much, only too little.
- gooderlooking 13y agoTry watching a Cosmos marathon. The hyperbolic introductions are inspiring until you watch them back to back.