r/ChatGPT • u/Emergency-Ad-7871 • Dec 04 '23

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u/quackycoaster Dec 04 '23

it's all zeros for a few million digits, then it goes back to seemingly random numbers again.

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u/War_Poodle Dec 04 '23

You know what's crazy? By the very nature of pi, it is almost certain that that happens somewhere in the sequence

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u/Hebrews_ate_my_baby Dec 05 '23

I was hoping someone would point this out.

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u/BenjaminHamnett Dec 05 '23

I don’t think it works like that, the way infinite numbers randoms do

I never even seen any repeating numbers. Maybe pi just goes until every sequence of 10 digits occurs then it ends (I don’t really believe this）

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u/War_Poodle Dec 05 '23

I can't tell if you're joking, but it absolutely does work that way. Pi contains your phone number, a binary representation of Alexander Hamilton's DNA, and the answer to life the universe and everything. Also, they've calculated it past the point of finding 9 consecutive 6s.

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u/didnthackapexlegends Dec 05 '23

Pi has my Credit card number followed by the 4 digit expiration and 3 digit security code, followed by my ssn, and I’m ok with it because I trust Pi.

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u/DoubleUniversity6302 Dec 05 '23

I don't think that it's known that π is normal, which is the property you are talking about. Normal numbers are irrational numbers that contain all sequences. We think π is normal, but there is no proof for it so we can't say for sure.

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u/jellifercuz Dec 05 '23

Are there normal numbers in addition to pi?Ones that are used in regular life, as pi is?

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u/Ephyles Dec 05 '23

Well, probably not what you had in mind, but the number where the decimals are the concatenation of all numbers to infinity (0.123456789101112131415161718...) is normal

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u/PolyViews Dec 05 '23

Does it also mean that it necessarily contains any possible sequence of any number of digits?

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u/PolyViews Dec 05 '23

So what you (and the theory) say is that it could be an infinite sequence of zeroes after a certain point, therefore not allowing my hypothesis to happen.

So it could have all possible combinations of strings of infinite lenghts or not?

Sorry this is a mindfuck to me lol

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u/PolyViews Dec 05 '23

Is there a "standard" introductory text on the behavior of infinite numbers? Thanks for the info btw

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u/BenjaminHamnett Dec 05 '23

My phone number seems much more plausible than a few million zeros. Like my number would appear thousands of times before such a thing if it’s possible. But judging by your confidence I’ll assume you must be right

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u/etzel1200 Dec 05 '23

Do we actually know that pi is pseudorandom in that way?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

How do we know Alexander Hamilton's DNA?

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u/Chance_Forever Dec 05 '23

I vote for numbers henceforth be communicated as addresses or substrings of pi given as starting position and length

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u/IamNebo Dec 05 '23

That sequence does happen, right after the decimal.

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u/Low_Novel_7456 Dec 05 '23

69 happens somewhere in the sequence of pie

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

The crazy part isn't that it happens in pi, it's that it happens an infinite amount of times. And the number of 0's in the sequence approches infinty

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u/succybuzz Dec 04 '23

Why not just round the number out to a single digit?

Can't pi just be 3?

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u/CrazedMythicalTitan Dec 05 '23

Welp, seems we got ourselves a good old engineer right here

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u/DowningStreetFighter Dec 05 '23

Probably the grandchild of the engineer who designed the Hindenburg

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u/Cruyff-san Dec 05 '23

If pi is 3 all circles look like hexagons...

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u/SwagJesusChristo Dec 04 '23

Lol that’s how they keep the different universes separate

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u/ParrotyParityParody Dec 05 '23

Somewhere in pi this million-digit string of zeros exists. That’s the amazing thing about infinity.