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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, 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 This…
It's always wonderful to see solid implementations of really terrible ideas.
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 This…
You can never mention Carl Sagan too much, only too little.
Also, not only is it true that any imaginable sequence appears in Pi, but it appears there an infinite number of times.