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bobim | on: πFS
This is disturbing to realize that pi then contains all the past and future knowledge, including when I'll pass away.
mike_hock | parent | next
So does every other random infinite sequence of bits. The unintuitive part comes from infinity, not pi.

It also doesn't contain all past and future knowledge because it also contains all possible falsehoods about the past and future in a way that's indiscernible from the truth.

Encoding information as an offset into a pseudorandom sequence is no more storage efficient than storing the information directly.

smaudet | root | parent | next
Keyword is conjectured.

Infinities of random sequences exist that can be shown not to contain all data, 0-8 (base 10) is one such random sequence that is trivially proven to never contain 9...

There are no known patterns to pi, but, (I am legitimately curious about this), are there any known sequences e.g. of 1 million 0s and a single other digit within the decimal sequence of pi?

Given how it (pi) looks, I'm of the strong suspicion is that the answer is "no". But of course, proving that requires that some property of the randomness is provable. Which it does feel as if, given there are different infinities, there are also different randomnesses, hence the conjecture is ill-formed and probably incorrect...

gowld | root | parent
The longest consecutive sequence of decimals digits found in pi is a sequence of 13 8s. All other digits have a sequence of length 12.

https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html

sph | root | parent
Are you aware this is meant as a joke, right?
LoganDark | root | parent
Jokes can be educational too.
nosioptar | parent | next
The worst part is that it contains Star Wars 4-6 from an alternate timeline where Disney did a reboot casting Chris Pratt as Han Solo.

(Fun fact: "Chrispratt" is an ancient Californian word that means "Joel McHale didn't want the role.")

Yokohiii | root | parent | next
Around here it just means chrisp ratt.
1attice | root | parent
Thank you for this Prattfall
arialdomartini | parent | next
You will love reading Jorge Borges The Library of Babel.

https://dn760100.eu.archive.org/0/items/TheLibraryOfBabel/ba...

teapourer | root | parent
I thought of this as soon as I saw the repo as well.
matheusmoreira | parent | next
All knowledge already exists. Humans are merely discovering it.

All knowledge is information. All information is sequences of bits. All sequences of bits are numbers. All numbers already exist.

All files in a computer are sequences of bits. Intellectual work creates files. Intellectual work is number discovery.

Humans are interesting number generators. Humans are anti-random number generators.

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xp84 | parent | next
If it makes you feel better, consider that it also contains all plausible and implausible falsehoods about your demise as well.
Yokohiii | parent | next
The person who starts reading ahead into pi will always gets the freshest numbers.

Perfect crypto!

OkayPhysicist | parent | next
So does a calendar, if you you buy them enough years in advance.
thih9 | parent | next
It also contains all possible falsehoods and comes with no way to distinguish what's true from what isn't.
vadansky | root | parent
But enough about LLMs
skulk | parent | next
this statement is equivalent to "pi is a normal number." While most real numbers are normal and pi is suspected to be so, it isn't known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

cadamsdotcom | parent | next
Fear not! It’s probably so deep in pi that you’d pass away listening to someone tell you where!
nighthawk454 | parent | next
And also all the days you don’t, so, by itself not very meaningful. Especially since you can’t tell which one is right in advance. In some sense, so does a calendar
layer8 | parent | next
It also contains all past and future fake news, and you don’t know which is which.
koolala | parent | next
It isn't actually proven true.
deadbabe | parent | next
A not so distant calendar also has the day you will pass away.
anthonj | parent
So does a random number generator
gowld | root | parent
You need to be more specific in order to make that statement falsifiable.