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pipad, was Re: bounded storage model - why is R organized as 2-d array?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Mon Mar 20 22:18:54 2006
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:51:00 -0600
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "alex@alten.org" <alex@alten.org>
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Anyone see a reason why the digits of Pi wouldn't form an excellent
public large (infinite, actually) string of "random" bits?
There's even an efficient digit-extraction (a/k/a "random access to
fractional bits") formula, conveniently base 16:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBPFormula.html
I dub this "pi pad".
Is this idea transcendental or irrational?
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[Moderator's note: I'd say "irrational" but I'll let other people
chime in first. --Perry]
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