[140822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Fri May 20 15:46:31 2011
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:44:26 -0400
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DD6C263.6030808@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:34:59AM -1000, Paul Graydon said:
> Not quite sure I follow that. "Start at position xyz, carry on for 10000
> bits" shouldn't be as long as telling it all 10000 bits?
what position # do you think your exact 10000 bits will appear at?
(infact, mathies, whats the probability density function for
string of digits length N appearing in pi's digits per M digits?)
find M/N and there's your answer - might well be cheaper to
express the 10000 bits themselves, than a 100,000 bit long position #
in pi.
you cant exabyte-attack all possible integers, ya know.
/kc
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