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[-] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago

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

[-] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 4 points 5 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 2 points 5 months ago

3200 characters, using only the lowercase alphabet, space, comma, and full stop.

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