| ??? 10/06/04 13:00 Read: times |
#78874 - Pi Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jez Smith said:
I should just say the first 'any' number of digits of pi are as far as anyone knows completely random and un correlated. There was a very interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 the other week about Pi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sc...ers2.shtml All about Pi, and the history of people who've studied it, tried to calculate it, etc, etc. It mentioned someone who calculated Pi to a (then) record-breaking number of places, then people started spotting that the digits stopped being random & uncorrelated after a while. This was later shown to be because the calculation was wrong! |
