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> >Subject: Converting Pi to binary: DON'T DO IT! (via Russ Perry Jr.)
> >
> >Newsgroup: alt.math.recreational
>
> WARNING: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary. It is conjectured that this
> number is normal, meaning that it contains ALL finite bit strings.
>
> If you compute it, you will be guilty of:
>
> * Copyright infringement (of all books, all short stories, all
> newspapers, all magazines, all web sites, all music, all movies,
> and all software, including the complete Windows source code)
> * Trademark infringement
> * Possession of child pornography
> * Espionage (unauthorized possession of top secret information)
> * Possession of DVD-cracking software
> * Possession of threats to the President
> * Possession of everyone's SSN, everyone's credit card numbers,
> everyone's PIN numbers, everyone's unlisted phone numbers, and
> everyone's passwords
> * Defaming Islam. Not technically illegal, but you'll have to go
> into hiding along with Salman Rushdie.
> * Defaming Scientology. Which IS illegal -- just ask Keith Henson.
>
> Also, your computer will contain all of the nastiest known computer
> viruses. In fact, all of the nastiest POSSIBLE computer viruses.
>
> Some of the files on my PC are intensely personal, and I for one
> don't want you snooping through a copy of them.
And every single one of the NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD!!!! Run away! Run
away!
> You might get away with computing just a few digits, but why risk it?
> There's no telling how far into Pi you can go without finding the secret
> documents about the JFK assassination, a photograph of your neighbor's six
> year old daughter doing the nasty with the family dog, or a complete copy of
> the not-yet-released Pearl Harbor movie. So just don't do it.
>
> The same warning applies to e, the square root of 2, Euler's constant, Phi,
> the cosine of any non-zero algebraic number, and the vast majority of all
> other real numbers.
>
> There's a reason why these numbers are always computed and shown in decimal,
> after all.
But I have here my TOP SECRET DECIMAL ENCODING SYSTEM (*) in which any
decimal number can be interpreted as a unique character string and I
have a wonderful proof (though there is not space for it in this buffer)
can prove that they are all in the decimal representation of Pi as
well! So don't go computing the value of any of them there irrational
universal constants to more than about 10**100 places or you will be in
BIG TROUBLE.
(*) actually all I do is use each block of 6 figures as an offset into
the complete works of Shakespeare on my disk. Hah! The Feds will never
think of that one! And even if they did they'd never get it because they
don't know which order the plays are in!! Your secrets are all belong
to me!
No doctor, I haven't had any of the yellow pills today, only the white
ones...
Ken
