On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Eric Cordian wrote:
Interesting article recently posted on the Nature Web site about the normality of Pi.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010802/010802-9.html
"David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Richard Crandall of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, present evidence that pi's decimal expansion contains every string of whole numbers. They also suggest that all strings of the same length appear in pi with the same frequency: 87,435 appears as often as 30,752, and 451 as often as 862, a property known as normality."
Note that Reed College is known to be one of the best sources of hallucinigens locally. I wonder where "10000" or "99999" occurs in Pi? alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman