[484] in Cypherpunks
PI Compression
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Fri May 21 19:11:42 1993
Date: Fri, 21 May 93 15:55:25 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: "Kent Hastings"'s message of 21 May 93 15:33:10 U <199305212233.AA07890@aerospace.aero.org>
>Since all possible finite bit strings are, by definition, contained
>in the unending cavalcade of bits in pi,
Definition? I have seen not this asserted even by theorem. Not
surprising, since the statement is patently false. There are
2^{\aleph_0} finite bit strings, and only \aleph_0 of those are
subsequences of pi.
For those of you without a math background, this means "They all just
don't fit."
Eric
