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

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (30 children)

That's not how it's works. Being "infinite" is not enough, the number 1.110100100010000... is "infinite", without repeating patterns and dosen't have other digits that 1 or 0.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

to be fair, though, 1 and 0 are just binary representations of values, same as decimal and hexadecimal. within your example, we'd absolutely find the entire works of shakespeare encoded in ascii, unicode, and lcd pixel format with each letter arranged in 3x5 grids.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Doesn't, the binary pattern 10101010 dosen't exists on that number, for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can encode base 2 as base 10, I don't think anyone is saying it exists in binary form.