There are a few long strings, but have fun yourself with the pi digit searcher:
http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi Longest string I heard of was nine 6's in a row, so search for 666666666 and see what you get. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Kelly" <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> To: "Jeffrey Gaynor" <jgay...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Cc: python-list@python.org Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:49:56 PM Subject: Re: value of pi and 22/7 On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Gaynor <jgay...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: > There are fun math questions, for instance, is there a run of a million 1's > someplace in the decimal expansion of pi? Maybe so, but we just don't know, > since we've only computed the first trillion or so digits. Since pi is irrational I would be surprised if there isn't one eventually. Out of my own curiosity, do you know what the longest known string of repeating digits in pi is? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
