Re: Developing a focused set of questions for IDists - Comments encouraged


Mark VandeWettering wrote:
After all, pi makes its presence known in all sorts of physical
and mathematical processes, and whether its digits actually _are_ random
or just _appear_ random is actually a legitimate and open question?

"Random"? I don't think so, no... whether they're distinguishable from
random after the first few, now - I'd say not.

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