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    26 MAR 2013

     π in Base-26 Will Produce All the Works of Shakespeare

    Base 26 is one of two fairly natural ways of representing numbers as text using a 26-letter alphabet. The number of interest is expressed numerically in base 26, and then the 26 different base-26 digits are identified with letters as 0=A, 1=B, 2=C, ... 25=Z. Here are the first 100 digits of pi expressed in this way: D.DRSQLOLYRTRODNLHNQTGKUDQGTUIRXNEQBCKBSZIVQQVGDMELM UEXROIQIYALVUZVEBMIJPQQXLKPLRNCFWJPBYMGGOHJMMQISMS... Lo! At the 6th digit we find a two-letter word (LO), and only a ...
    Folksonomies: statistics chaos probability pi random
    Folksonomies: statistics chaos probability pi random
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    By assigning letters to numbers in the irrational number, we can produce the effect of a million monkeys on a million typewriters for a million years.

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