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[–] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One the one hand you are correct.

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

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[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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

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[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

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