• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    But wouldn’t that be amazing if THAT was the thing that proved pi contained the whole universe - I mean, the first thing they “unlocked”. lol.

    Disclaimer: I don’t think pi contains the universe, just love to think about things like that occasionally for fun.

    • livingheart@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      as an infinte random string of values, the digits of pi will, sooner or later, contain any specific string of values.

      i think it was Sagan’s “Contact” where aliens sent a message to read the digits of pi from the x th place to the y th place, and that stretch could be read as instructions on how to build a machine to reply.

    • kalpol@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      Technically it does as the infinite set contains all possible subsets, or whatever