Comment on Implications
Sconrad122@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Shower thought: Pi in base 36 contains every string of characters somewhere.
nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
3200 characters, using only the lowercase alphabet, space, comma, and full stop.