From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2009-04-27T22:27:14+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Digits of Pi (#202) On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Robert Dober wrote: > 2009/4/25 Joel VanderWerf : >>> 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. Been reading Goedel, Escher, Bach again, have we Robert? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale