From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-04-27T22:45:12+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Digits of Pi (#202) On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: > 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 To my defense I can claim: "I did not understand a bit", but it is indeed a great read (actually never really finished it :-O ) > > 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 > > -- Si tu veux construire un bateau ... Ne rassemble pas des hommes pour aller chercher du bois, préparer des outils, répartir les tâches, alléger le travail… mais enseigne aux gens la nostalgie de l’infini de la mer. If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry