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Re:Find your birthday (or any other number) in pi ... by DeusExMachina on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @09:23AM (#1195600)
I'm not a mathematician, but I read a lot of time ago that since pi is infinite but not periodic, you shold be able to find in it any sequence you want, given infinite time to search in it.

This is what I remember, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Find your birthday (or any other number) in pi ... by alphaBetaGamma on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:05AM (#1195684)
The statement (infinite && not periodic) ==> (any finite sequence is in it) is not true. \a number could have a decimal expansion that is not periodic but does not include certain digits. E.g: write Pi in binary and consider the same sequence of 0's and 1's as a number in decimal
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Re:Find your birthday (or any other number) in pi ... by zackattack on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @09:55AM (#1195663)
You can't find 1/9 in pi. 1/9 precludes the possibility of any other sequence.
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Re:Find your birthday (or any other number) in pi ... by staticshock on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:09AM (#1195699)
I think the parent was talking about sequences of digits, i.e. integers, not just "any rational number"
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