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Yes, I am a dork, and a math dork. But I just found this and I had to share it with people who I think might just care. Find strings of digits in pi to the 100 millionth place here!

Fun new toy...

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zex20913 wrote:
Yes, I am a dork, and a math dork. But I just found this and I had to share it with people who I think might just care. Find strings of digits in pi to the 100 millionth place here!

Fun new toy...

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Mmm... useful!

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Hmmm. If you translate the 4 letters of my name - 13 01 18 11 - it can't be found. Omit the 0 from the 1 - giving 13 1 18 11 - and there's 9 results. Weird.

And I'm sure you all really wanted to know that.

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krammer wrote:
Hmmm. If you translate the 4 letters of my name - 13 01 18 11 - it can't be found. Omit the 0 from the 1 - giving 13 1 18 11 - and there's 9 results. Weird.

And I'm sure you all really wanted to know that.

The page explains this phenomena:

If your string of numbers is 8 digits long, then you only have about a 63% chance of finding it, and it just so happened that your number was one of the 3700000 that did not appear, but by reducing the length to 7, as you did by removing the "0", you increased the probability of finding it to 99.995%. It appears that 1311811 is one of those sets of numbers that does appear in the first 100 million digits of Pi.



[Edited by agaricus5 on 10-28-2003 at 11:42 AM GMT]

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Ah. Right. My stupidity as usual.

Must remember to read things properly in future.

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What a fun and pointless toy! I typed in my birthday and got plenty of results. Only a 6 character string, so I guess I have a very high probability of finding it.

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My name in digits (0308180919) occurs at "position 89137977 counting from the first digit after the decimal point."


Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah boooooooyyyyyyyy!

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DiMono wrote:
My name in digits (0308180919) occurs at "position 89137977 counting from the first digit after the decimal point."


Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah boooooooyyyyyyyy!

Lucky you for finding it!

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I don't have the time, so could any of you search for my name in pi?

(141518 )
(N O AH )

-Noah

[Edited by NoahT on 11-08-2003 at 07:36 AM GMT: Accidental Smiley]

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Erm. I can find the first two letters

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It takes less time to do the search than it did for you to type the post saying you didn't have time to do it...

Game on,

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If you take all four letters as 2 digit pairings, 14150108 occurs twice.

141518 occurs 102 times.

So there.

For fun:

1234567 occurs at decimal place 9470344.
9876543 occurs at decimal place 9502966, practically right behind it
23456789 occurs at decimal place 995998
87654321 occurs at decimal place 2747956
My phone number (without area code) occurs at decimal place 8913163 :

0000000 occurs at decimal place 3794572
1111111 occurs at decimal place 4657555
2222222 occurs at decimal place 82599811
33333333 occurs at decimal place 36488176
44444444 occurs at decimal place 22931745
5555555 occurs at decimal place 3517236
666666666 occurs at decimal place 45681781
777777777 occurs at decimal place 24658601
888888888 occurs at decimal place 46663520
99999999 occurs at decimal place 36356642

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Here's the great unanswered question - does x occur at decimal place x?

Matt

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If x = 1, then yes.

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Smart alek. Find another one.

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There are no others in the first 10,000 digits at least. Will keep searching.

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1, 16470, 44899.

They're on the front page.

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You win. And I'm a moron.


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here's a question, can anyone find the highest pair of consecutive numbers that occur consecutively?

i.e. at some point you have 808182



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Do you want highest decimal place, or highest overall number in the consecutive sequence?

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highest consecutive decimal numbers contained within the digits of pi

i.e. 8182 > 2021

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And are we limited to 2 digit numbers? I.E 100101>8182>2122, and the more #s the better, like 202122>10001001?

This is getting confusing...

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the bigger the numbers, the better.

If 59885989 occurs somewhere, that sure beats out 8081

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