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Re:Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it by FiddlerClamp on Friday August 06, 2010 @03:57PM (#1582151)
In Carl Sagan's 'Contact', "Ellie, acting upon a suggestion by the senders of the message, works on a program which computes the digits of π to record lengths and in different bases. Very, very far from the decimal point (1020) and in base 11, it finds that a special pattern does exist when the numbers stop varying randomly and start producing 1s and 0s in a very long string. The string's length is the product of 11 prime numbers. The 1s and 0s when organized as a square of specific dimensions form a rasterized circle."
Re:Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it by sp332 on Friday August 06, 2010 @05:21PM (#1582353)
Haha, you can't make a square with a number of elements equal to the product of 11 different primes (or any number of primes).
Re:Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it by sorbus on Friday August 06, 2010 @07:09PM (#1582598)
Given that it was a "square of specific dimensions," I just assumed that it was supposed to be a rectangle.