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egillie | 11 months ago

All of my passwords are encoded in pi…somewhere

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magneticnorth|11 months ago

Well, probably! But it hasn't actually been proven yet that pi is a "normal number" [0], though most mathematicians think it must be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#

thaumasiotes|11 months ago

It's not necessary that pi be normal in order for it to contain every possible sequence. Sufficient, but not necessary.

Y_Y|11 months ago

If the OP is anything like me, then they have no trust in number theory researchers and deliberately choose passwords like "141592" so they can be sure

billforsternz|11 months ago

I enjoy thinking about this. Not only is a sequence of digits encoding the complete works of Shakespeare in there somewhere, it's in there again. And again, an infinite number of times.

Y_Y|11 months ago

In my encoding I represent the works of Shakespeare by the digit 0, anything else by the digit 1 followed by its ASCII representation.