Comment on Implications
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 6 months agoPi is an infinite series of non-repeating digits, and yet you will never find the letter A in pi because there is a 0% chance of the letter A being a digit in a decimal system. By the same logic, infinite possibilities do not guarantee that every conceivable state occurs, if that conceivable state has a 0% probability. As finite beings, it is very difficult for us to accurately distinguish between a 0% probability and a infinitesimal probability, so we end up circling back to “we don’t know”
lengau@midwest.social 6 months ago
One the one hand you are correct.
On the other hand… Behold! An A in pi! www.spoj.com/problems/PIHEX2/
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Haha, I figured it was 50/50 on whether I would get this comment or something about the ASCII representation of the letter A
match@pawb.social 6 months ago
Shower thought: Pi in base 36 contains every string of characters somewhere.
nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
While pi is irrational, there is no guarantee every conceivable sequence of digits will be in pi. However the library of babel contains all letter sequences under a certain length.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 months ago
3200 characters, using only the lowercase alphabet, space, comma, and full stop.