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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So by the thought of infinite parallel universes though, shouldn't there then be at least some in which someone did attend?

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Pi is an infinite series of non-repeating digits, and yet you will never find the letter A in pi because there is a 0% chance of the letter A being a digit in a decimal system. By the same logic, infinite possibilities do not guarantee that every conceivable state occurs, if that conceivable state has a 0% probability. As finite beings, it is very difficult for us to accurately distinguish between a 0% probability and a infinitesimal probability, so we end up circling back to "we don't know"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

One the one hand you are correct.

On the other hand... Behold! An A in pi! https://www.spoj.com/problems/PIHEX2/

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Haha, I figured it was 50/50 on whether I would get this comment or something about the ASCII representation of the letter A

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Shower thought: Pi in base 36 contains every string of characters somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

While pi is irrational, there is no guarantee every conceivable sequence of digits will be in pi. However the library of babel contains all letter sequences under a certain length.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

3200 characters, using only the lowercase alphabet, space, comma, and full stop.

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