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Re:File system that stores location of file in Pi by sqrt17 on Friday July 11, 2014 @02:50AM (#8019111)
If you used small chunks (say, up to four bytes) you could just have a lookup table storing all the indices.

Or - what a genius idea! - we could use Pi itself as a lookup table and use the sequence of n bytes at that position of pi as an implicit lookup table.

Re:File system that stores location of file in Pi by lubos on Friday July 11, 2014 @04:04AM (#8019233)
There are 4,294,967,296 possibilities in 4 bytes.

To store a number in range of 0 to 4,294,967,296 - you will need exactly 4 bytes.

Re:File system that stores location of file in Pi by sqrt17 on Friday July 11, 2014 @04:49AM (#8019309)
Not all 32bit sequences can be found in the first 4,294,967,296 binary digits of pi. Hence you will either need more then 4 bytes to encode 4 bytes in a pi position or a lookup table to fit the 4,294,967,296 numbers, some of which will be substantially larger than 4,294,967,296, into 4,294,967,296 slots.
Re:File system that stores location of file in Pi by delinka on Friday July 11, 2014 @11:19AM (#8020573)
To save us from searching in the number space after 4.3-ish billionth slot, we could just store the sequences that we didn't find in that part of pi. I propose a bit used to indicate whether the current sequence is a pi-sequence or just raw data.