[46525] in Cypherpunks
Representations of Pi, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Fri Jan 5 00:15:41 1996
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 19:19:12 -0800
To: Robbie Gates <gates_r@maths.su.oz.au>
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 09:39 AM 1/5/96 +1100, you wrote:
>> The decimal representation of any irrational number (e.g. pi, e)
>> contains the decimal representation of every natural number
>> somewhere. (Proof by diagonalization.)
>What you say here isn't quite true.
Right.
But BTW, isn't it interesting, that news item from a few weeks ago, on an
algorithm for determining individual bits in Pi, regardless of whether
you've calculated all the previous ones. Only problem is, it only works in
hexadecimal (and, obviously, binary, etc, not decimal.
