At 01:36 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Herb Savage wrote:
> I remember reading an interview with the Chudnovsky brothers a long time
>ago. I think they had computed about 4 billion digits at the time.
>Then they
>felt that there would be something interesting in the digits of PI if
>you computed
>them out far enough.
> They thought that this might happen by the time
>you got to
>1 trillion digits.
I don't know if that makes much sense. If you do get something significant
after a finite number of digits, it is probably a statistical fluke and
won't hold up in the long run.
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