On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 06:49:27PM -0500, Leo Feret wrote:
> Thanks very much for your efforts. "Pi" the way, the sequence 314159 happens
> to be part of the Great Number.
The probability of an N-digit number appearing somewhere in a random
sequence of 10^N digits is approximately 1 - (1/e), or about 0.632.
The probability of an N-digit number appearing at a specific position
is 1/(10^N). So the probability of it not appearing in any position is
(1 - 1/(10^N))^(10^N). As N increases, this converges very quickly to
1/e.
Greg Hewgill
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