The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 年前Conveniently enter your phone number with a single inputlemmy.worldimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageConveniently enter your phone number with a single inputlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 年前message-square45fedilink
minus-squarezqwzzle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 年前It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 年前That one was my favourite. Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it. Hang on… would that work? An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits? Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.
minus-squarezqwzzle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 年前Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.
It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.
That one was my favourite.
Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.
Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi
Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.