pi searches

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:31 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery

Yes, that's right. Search the first 100 million digits of pi for substrings. List digits at a particular decimal position. Oh, yes. Feel the power.

Yay, my birthday is in the first 100 million digits of Pi!

3 times!

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:33 pm

My 7 digit phone number is, but my 10 digit number is not.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:36 pm

Pi contains a few self-locating strings, but not many. Defining self-locating depends how you count the "position". If you treat the first digit after the decimal point as digit "1" (which the pi searcher does), then you get the following numbers which can self-locate themselves in the first 50M digits of pi:

1, 16470, 44899
If, on the other hand, you act like a computer geek and use zero based indexing, then you get these numbers:
6, 27, 13598, 43611, 24643510

That's pretty cool.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:54 pm

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:58 pm

I luv pie

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:46 pm

quantus wrote:nerd

no nono, it's "u nerd"