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And I can't help but marvel at the creator of God. To create something that would go on to create people is really awesome.
by zapdrive 11y ago
And I can't help but marvel at the creator of God. To create something that would go on to create people is really awesome.
- ajuc 11y ago(S)he could have added some rules to forbid creation of sicknesses and catastrophes. Also this 2nd rule of thermodynamics is very inconvenient.
- arethuza 11y agoWhile we are at it, could we get the speed of light changed, maybe stick some useful stuff in pi as well...
- dekhn 11y agoEvery possible bit of useful stuff already exists in pi; you just need to know the bit index to retrieve it (in O(n) time, O(1) space). This is because pi is almost certainly unbiased and irrational, thus it repeats at random forever, which means that all possible finite subsequences are eventually generated.
- arethuza 11y agoSorry - the pi thing was reference to Carl Sagan's Contact.
- nnq 11y agoWait, this means that I can represent any chunk of N bits by the bit index inside pi where I can find it at? ...dunno what this could be useful at, but this made my day :) thanks!
- pepve 11y agoSee also πfs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698852
- dekhn 11y agoyes, but it costs O(n) to compute the nth digit of pi (bailey algorithm). I've talked to people who wanted to publish streams of truly random numbers, where you choose an index into the stream, and the data at the index forms a private key (the shared secret is the index) used to encrypt data.