Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point

On 6/27/2025 6:18 AM, David Entwistle wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:50:14 -0000 (UTC), Richard Tobin wrote:
 

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279       41971 69399 3751...

  3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 6939...

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(reformatted)
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Presumably the first was copied from a listing in groups of 5 digits,
and one group was missed out.

 Ah yes, thanks.
 The omission of the five digit sequence avoids the problem of the zero in
the thirty-second decimal place of Pi. That would be frustrating after
you'd managed to get that far matching words of equal length to the
digits.
 I have the same problem with my allocation of A to 1, etc. Looks like I
need a re-think for a memory aid..
 

I likely left out the 5-digit block with the zero due to a cut-and-paste error.  I know that I didn't enter the digits from memory.  I had only memorized about 10 digits (the number of digits in a 1970s pocket calculator).
When first posted in 1998, it was suggested that a 10-letter word could be used for zero.
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