> > But while watching the movie Pi, it occurred to me that since the number
> > Pi has *nothing* to do with base 10, there would be no repitition in the
> > digits in any approximation of it in base 10 (or any other integer base,
> > for that matter). The sequence of digits *should* be completely random,
> > and it's goofy for people to try to look for patterns. I mean hey, if
> > it's what you gotta do, go for it, but I think time would be better
> > spent on other things.
Yech! To maintain the niceties of the list, I'll just say that I'm not a fan
of that movie.
> I remember some notes on interesting patterns in Pi that led one to
> believe that certain statistical events were NOT ocurring. For example,
> in a completely random set of (base 10) digits, one would expect a string
> of, say, 100 of the SAME digit to appear in the first so many digits of
> the number, however this doesn't happen in Pi and, furthermore, certain
> digits appear in large clusters more often than others in the list of
> 'known' digits.
Umm, would the probability of any specific series of n digits in a random sample
occurring be 10^-n? This shouldn't yeild a series of a hundred of the same digits
for some time, if the sample is random.
> Does anyone have any stats on this? Personally, I imagine this is the
> same sort of statistical dribble as "The Bible Code", and someone probably
> got their Chi-squareds mixed up when they were doing the math, but since
> I'm not strong in statistics, it would be nice to hear an 'Expert'
> opinion.
You mean the bible code isn't real, I'm shocked...
-Lucas
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