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[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Pi 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 7 points 4 months ago

One the one hand you are correct.

On the other hand... Behold! An A in pi! https://www.spoj.com/problems/PIHEX2/

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 6 points 4 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 4 points 4 months ago

Shower thought: Pi in base 36 contains every string of characters somewhere.

[-] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 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.