Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:57:03 -0700, Carl G. wrote:

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).

It can't have been easy finding that many digits of pi back then. I'd have
been learning to program in FORTRAN and carrying piles of punch cards up
to the seventh(?) floor of the Maths's Building, where the card reader and
line printer, for the Oxford Road computing centre were.

 
When first posted in 1998, it was suggested that a 10-letter word could
be used for zero.

Good idea. That would work.


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David Entwistle