How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016)

Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by BMc2020 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @09:45PM (#31964300)

If you read the novel Contact by Carl Sagan (it's not in the movie) you get to find out what secret is hiding in PI's digits.

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by Scarblac on Sunday July 03, 2022 @04:00AM (#31965959)

If pi is normal, it contains all possible secrets encoded within it, right? Including copies of that book in various languages. It's Borges' library.

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by 2-718-281-828 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:29AM (#31966378)

But it also contains all possible contradictions and negations of all possible secrets - so, you don't know which is the "true" secret.

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by corsac on Sunday July 03, 2022 @07:25AM (#31966875)

I love this response. Deflates the enchantment right out of Borges' library (and Nietzsche's eternal return, and fantasies about mystical significance of pi), which always bothered me somehow anyway.

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by mrbukkake on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:08AM (#31967789)

This is directly mentioned in Borges' story

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by corsac on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:12AM (#31968293)

No doubt it's directly mentioned in that blasted library too, along with any number of perfect refutations.

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by quickthrower2 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:54AM (#31966460)

Or the typewriter’s monkey

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by Tao3300 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @10:22PM (#31964479)

https://xkcd.com/10

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by jonah on Saturday July 02, 2022 @10:48PM (#31964605)

Also reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2170/

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by nadavision on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:15AM (#31966318)

Obligatory "there truly is an xkcd for everything."

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Re:How many decimals of pi do we need? (2016) by andreareina on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:31AM (#31965087)

That ending filled me with such a feeling of wonder as a kid. Even now, and that's understanding the implication of pi very likely being normal.

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