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Microsoft to Copyright Pi, Found to Contain Entire Arial Font (sebastiancarlos.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In some encoding scheme, those digits can represent something other than binary digits. If we consider your string of digits to truly be infinite, some substring somewhere will be meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

One of the many things I loved about Sagan's Contact is that, at the end, they found a pattern in pi when put into base 13. He didn't really go into it as it was the end of the book, but I really wish he'd survived to write a sequel.