On Cliff Pickover's LISTSERV, Derek Ross posted another interesting (to
me) idea:
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"Do the digits of pi encode every one of us -- the atomic coordinates of
all our atoms and all our memories? If the coordinates of an atom require
real numbers, which are infinite in expansion, then pi will not be able
to contain the coordinates of a group of atoms, let alone a single real
number."
I'm not sure I buy that argument, for sice pi is infinitely expandable,
should it not be able to hold a finite number of infinite numbers?
Derek posted some web pages of interest:
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/
"Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi or How to compute
One Billion Digits of Pi"
http://gryphon.ccs.brandeis.edu/~grath/attractions/gpi/
"Search In 10 Million Digits of Pi Page"
John Burgeson (Burgy)
www.burgy.50megs.com
(science/theology, quantum mechanics, baseball, ethics,
humor, cars, God's intervention into natural causation, etc.)
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