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26 MAR 2013
? 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.
