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This is disturbing to realize that pi then contains all the past and future knowledge, including when I'll pass away.
The worst part is that it contains Star Wars 4-6 from an alternate timeline where Disney did a reboot casting Chris Pratt as Han Solo. (Fun fact: "Chrispratt" is an ancient Californian word that means "Joel McHale didn't want the role.")
I'm intrigued that π was capitalized to Π presumably automatically in the HN headline.
jshell> "πfs".toUpperCase()
$1 ==> "ΠFS"
Welcome to Node.js v26.3.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
> "πfs".toUpperCase()
'ΠFS'
Python 3.14.5 (main, May 10 2026, 10:21:34) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.0.123.102)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "πfs".upper()
'ΠFS'
echo 'πfs' | awk '{print toupper($0)}'
ΠFSThis is probably a dumb question, but do we actually know that pi has an infinite number of decimal digits or are we assuming that it does because we haven’t developed a sufficiently powerful computer to calculate the last digit of pi? I’m guessing this is something that could be formally proven?
Here is a one page proof that pi is irrational - https://heuklyd.github.io/papers/pdf/Niven-1947.pdf
0x123456789ABCDEF0
use this number as a shorter nibble storage alternative...
> Matches that occur early enough in π to attain significant compression will not be varied. That is, it isn't possible to use π to compress interesting, real-world data because real-word strings are unlikely to arise early.
This is probably a dumb question, but do we actually know that pi has an infinite number of decimal digits or are we assuming that it does because we haven’t developed a sufficiently powerful computer to calculate the last digit of pi? I’m guessing this is something that could be formally proven?
Here is a one page proof that pi is irrational - https://heuklyd.github.io/papers/pdf/Niven-1947.pdf
This is probably a dumb question, but do we actually know that pi has an infinite number of decimal digits or are we assuming that it does because we haven’t developed a sufficiently powerful computer to calculate the last digit of pi? I’m guessing this is something that could be formally proven?
This is probably a dumb question, but do we actually know that pi has an infinite number of decimal digits or are we assuming that it does because we haven’t developed a sufficiently powerful computer to calculate the last digit of pi? I’m guessing this is something that could be formally proven?
Here is a one page proof that pi is irrational - https://heuklyd.github.io/papers/pdf/Niven-1947.pdf
It is worth noting that as the length of data increases it becomes extremely unlikely that the index and length of the sequence within pi would actually be smaller than the data.
This is probably a dumb question, but do we actually know that pi has an infinite number of decimal digits or are we assuming that it does because we haven’t developed a sufficiently powerful computer to calculate the last digit of pi? I’m guessing this is something that could be formally proven?