[time-nuts] Pi -

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Sun Mar 14 17:41:45 UTC 2010


At 01:05 PM 3/14/2010, Mike Feher wrote...

>How random? There are no occurences of the sequence 123456 in the 
>first
>million digits of pi

Isn't there basically a (e-1)/e (63%) chance of a given n digit 
sequence occurring in a string of 10^n random digits? That 123456 
doesn't occur would actually seem to be a (very weak) indication that 
pi is non-random.




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