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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Pi is infinite so every combination/string of numbers is in there, if we calculated enough you could find a billion 2s next to each other

You can look through the first trillion here

https://archive.org/details/pi_dec_1t

Though it’s a bunch of downloading

[–] Guest_User@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not necessarily. It could just become a series of 1's repeating forever. Nothing would require it to contain all strings of numbers.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

The point of pi is that it’s non-repeating

[–] Jenztsch@feddit.de 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at 0.101001000100001... This number is also non-repeating, but obviously doesn't contain all numbers with finite digits.

The property you're looking for is called to be a normal number. Pi is assumed to be one, but it hasn't yet been proven.

However, in a sense this is an unremarkable property as almost all real numbers are normal. :)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago

but obviously doesn’t contain all numbers with finite digits.

I was just claiming possibility because we haven’t calculated the infinite string

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