From: Jeff Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2009-04-27T22:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Digits of Pi (#202)

Robert Dober wrote:
> 2009/4/25 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>:
>>> Btw, isn't every finite sequence of digits a subsequence of Pi's
>>> representation in that base?  Or is that unknowable?
>> IIRC that's true. But the _first_ ruby program... gee, that's got to mean
>> something. :)
> 
> But that means that the representation of pi contains a ruby  program
> that computes pi itself (although of course it never finishes), and
> that for any imaginable programming language capable of that task, eg
> a TuringMachine.

Infinite is biiiiiiiig...

> I am confused now, but I bet the Ruby program starts exactly at the
> 42**42 hexdigit - for a well chosen base of course ;)

"You may think it's a long walk to the chemist, but that's just peanuts 
to space."