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Re:ΠFS by mike_hock on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:32PM (#48482255)
So does every other random infinite sequence of bits. The unintuitive part comes from infinity, not pi.

It also doesn't contain all past and future knowledge because it also contains all possible falsehoods about the past and future in a way that's indiscernible from the truth.

Encoding information as an offset into a pseudorandom sequence is no more storage efficient than storing the information directly.

Re:ΠFS by smaudet on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:45PM (#48484389)
Keyword is conjectured.

Infinities of random sequences exist that can be shown not to contain all data, 0-8 (base 10) is one such random sequence that is trivially proven to never contain 9...

There are no known patterns to pi, but, (I am legitimately curious about this), are there any known sequences e.g. of 1 million 0s and a single other digit within the decimal sequence of pi?

Given how it (pi) looks, I'm of the strong suspicion is that the answer is "no". But of course, proving that requires that some property of the randomness is provable. Which it does feel as if, given there are different infinities, there are also different randomnesses, hence the conjecture is ill-formed and probably incorrect...

Re:ΠFS by gowld on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:54PM (#48484919)
The longest consecutive sequence of decimals digits found in pi is a sequence of 13 8s. All other digits have a sequence of length 12.

https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html

Re:ΠFS by sph on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:08PM (#48482740)
Are you aware this is meant as a joke, right?
Re:ΠFS by LoganDark on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:54PM (#48483245)
Jokes can be educational too.