At 04:27 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Jud McCranie wrote:
>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.
To be interesting to a mathematician it would have to be something
like some statistical property of the digits of PI changing after a
certain number of digits.
Regards,
Herb Savage
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