Re: Fantasy Cliche: Perfect Rationalists

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> What would be an obvious sign of divine activity?
>
>>> Clear unambiguous messages in the digits of pi. No non-deity has
>>> write access to that number.
>
>> : ) Once you come up with a system of 'decoding' the messages, then
>> every possible message should be in the digits.
>
> I was thinking of Carl Sagan's novel _Contact_, in which it's
> discovered that, fairly close to the beginning of the base-11
> expansion of pi, there's a region of nothing but zeros and ones,
> a regions whose size is a square number, and when those digits
> are arranged in a square, they form an image of a circle.

Caught your interesting reference, even as I've only seen the movie
version.

> Yes, I'm aware that the vast majority of real numbers, probably
> including pi, contain, not just the full ASCII text of that novel,
> but also the full DVD encoding of the movie.

Yup. An infinite number of times too:)

>But not especially near their beginning.

Not in the range we're likely to calculate any time soon, no.

Karl Johanson


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