Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Another slice of π

Here's an interesting tool for finding where a series of digits occur in the mathematical number π. For example, if I were to input the birthdate of the late polyglot and mathematical genius and child prodigy William James Sidis, namely 01041898 (1st April 1898), we discover the following:

The string 01041898 occurs at position 12,755,930 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

The string and surrounding digits:

37624525549731537286 01041898 67094399007840784936

I'm sure Sidis would have loved this tool.

1 comments:

Political Rhino said...

In the words of Welsh Tory Boy...You fucking nerd Damon :-)

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