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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82reminds me of when I threw up friuity pebbles.
- Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+81So my TV was really just using pi this whole time...
- SimpleBinary, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66Dugg even though I'm color blind...
- AstroPHX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+65Nerdelicious! Pi will never cease to amaze me. Dugg.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54I see the sailboat!
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -13/+58Anyone else see the face of god?
- f8pc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50Pi ceased to amaze me after the 2 millionth digital. Gah. :)
- Inevitable.Fate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41 What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing some of that lesbian *****.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26"Prove the digits are random :)"
Depends on what you mean by random. If you mean that they don't form any sort of simple pattern, it's been done, by some of the brightest mathematicians history has known. Ferdinand von Lindemann proved pi was transcendental in 1882.
But really, by the strictest definition of random, pi is the exact oposite of random. It's a very non-random and well-defined number. pi will always be greater than 3.14159 and less than 3.14160. The nth digit of pi will always be the nth digit of pi; it's a constant, not a random number. - qbaler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I see a really simple pattern when I convert pi into base pi...
- LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25@godel
Or base pi. It would just be one red block.
Haha.
BTW, where are your friends Escher and Bach? - SnowBladerX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Prove the digits are random :)
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+20Wow...the nerdy ways of presenting this are endless.
Math kicks ass. - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24QUICK! TO EBAY!
- McGrude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I think better would be a black/white version done using the binary representation of π.
- swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17What'd be really funny if a a big PWNED! or a hand flipping us off appeared, showing that pi actually does have a pattern.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19It's a schooner.
- Giever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.
- ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Nope. The digits of pi are, for all intents and purposes, randomly distributed.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14Someone should do a grayscale version.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I'd like to see it in many different bases. A pattern that's clear in base-10 isn't always clear in base-2, for example. There's a clear pattern to the base-10 number 111,111,111. However, the binary representation, 11010011111011010111100011 has no obvious pattern.
There may be some sort of pattern to pi, but looking at it only in base-10 is to look at only one of many representations. - LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19@berwiki
I see it there. It starts with 3. So far, 3.1415926 look accurate. - meamog, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17+dugg, snoochy boochie noochies!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Nono, that's just your homepage, click on the link.
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13It's full of stars.
- covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"There is no way he can prove this is real"
What? It would be astonishingly easy to prove (or disprove) this. Just write a program that calculates pi, and compares each digit to the colour of the corresponding pixel. - CGreen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yo, I know pi to a thousand places.
- berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -25/+36Too bad the colors don't line up.
Dont believe me, zoom in on the top left part of the image. 3.14159, there is no sequence that matches the 1 with another 1.
Buried as Inaccurate.
I could write the stupid program to do this, why would someone 'fake' it?? - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11don't worry... noise is noise... color or not
- livet0ski, on 08/17/2009, -3/+12couldn't some better colors be used other than all the grays?
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Way to go letting the cat out of the bag...now the RIAA is going to sue Pi!
- longboarder543, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's amazing to me that somewhere in there is every digital work that has been or will ever be created. Even all the RIAA's "copyrighted" works.
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10no its not.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And stereoscopic anal., same poster:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidneysm/277699596/
Looks like no faces of God... or else God's just really, really ugly. - kcolagio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7OK, just a neat idea.
I wonder what happens if you change the width of the image....any ideas if a pattern will emerge? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You should read Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact". The 'surprise' ending is very similar to what you said (the movie version of this novel didn't include it).
- LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I only know 40 =/
- licoricewhip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I need to adjust my rabbit ears to get better pi reception.
- Tamriel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10It's a magic eye!
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apparently you have never read Carl Sagan's Contact
- Godel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This might be more interesting a different base number. Such as base 2.
- markp93, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6if you squint your eyes you see jesus, or pancakes or whatever...
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5^^ nice. interesting thread you had there.
- snlildude87, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@berwiki: there's no color for the period (don't count it)
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5***Spoiler for the book Contact***
@skydivingdutch:
Short response: Yes, you will find patterns, but that is expected from an infinite sequence of random numbers.
Long response:
"Actually, as it turns out there is a theorem which almost guarantees that Sagan's "fiction" about Pi is true. In particular, I have been referred to Theorem 146 in the book "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers" by Hardy and Wright which proves that the set of numbers that do not contain every arbitrary finite sequence in their decimal expansion has measure zero. (In other words, if you "randomly" pick a number, you can expect its decimal expansion to contain every finite sequence including the Gettysberg Address and the next e-mail message that you will write written out in ASCII.) There is no guarantee that this will be true for the number Pi...but there is also no reason to doubt that it is true."
quoted from http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf55-spoiler.html - Ademan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@Tamriel
I honestly tried it, but it wasnt :'( - bleonard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Holy crappy graphical compression! The individual colored "pixels" run right into each other!
- Cyberdactyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I ran this algorithm out to 9,342,276,923 places and a red circle appears. I'm freaking out.
- sc0ticus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7It's not interesting. The whole point of trancendental numbers is that there IS no pattern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number - schnitzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, but the odds of finding something so distinct as a picture of a circle, as early in the sequence as they found it, are vanishingly small.
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