26 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
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
...
2 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.
06 JUL 2012 by ideonexus
The Bootes Void
In the course of a redshift survey of galaxies brighter than R approximately equal to 16.3, 133 redshifts were measured in three fields, each separated by roughly 35 deg from the other two. If the galaxies in these fields were distributed uniformly, the combination of a galaxian luminosity function and the magnitude limits predicts that the distribution of redshifts should peak near 15,000 km/s. In fact, only one galaxy of the 133 was observed with a redshift in the 6000 km/s interval centere... 1 
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notesAn inconceivably massive region of space extremely sparsely populated with galaxies, strangely spherical in shape.
