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Rommie wrote:

Sigma_Orionis wrote:

grapes wrote:

Rommie wrote:Wonder if she found an intelligent signal in it? (I surely can't be the only one who actually read Contact the book.)

I've read it. I was always skeptical--just imagine a superior intellect designing the universe (and number system) so that 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 ... has a infinite expansion that *eventually* encodes a digital circle

And might be normal to boot.

Actually,one could see Pi calculated to enough number of places as an implementation f the Infinite Monkey Theorem

They address that in the book by saying it occurs high enough up in the chain to be statistically anomalous.

IRC, Carl Sagan included that pi thing as an example of what would he accept as proof of a deity. I guess it's a bit silly because, well, insert comment about religion here.

I should have read the book instead of watching the movie

Sigma_Orionis wrote:I should have read the book instead of watching the movie

they're not mutually exclusive you know.

pi day seems to have escaped notice this year. an indication of just how bad things have been.

I do have hope for next year.

fisher, good pecan pie. bad pecan pie is just awful. and yes, bad pecan pie exists.

code monkey wrote:pi day seems to have escaped notice this year. an indication of just how bad things have been.

I do have hope for next year.

fisher, good pecan pie. bad pecan pie is just awful. and yes, bad pecan pie exists.

Yes, Pi day was the first day our museum closed. We went out to breakfast that morning, which we only do about 2 or 3 times a year. This restaurant has a bakery, so we each bought a piece of pie to bring home in celebration. No one really acknowledged it, but I'm pretty sure we all knew we wouldn't be going out much for quite a while.

code monkey wrote:pi day seems to have escaped notice this year. an indication of just how bad things have been.

I do have hope for next year.

fisher, good pecan pie. bad pecan pie is just awful. and yes, bad pecan pie exists.

Proof that the devil must exist.

SciFiFisher wrote:

code monkey wrote:pi day seems to have escaped notice this year. an indication of just how bad things have been.

I do have hope for next year.

fisher, good pecan pie. bad pecan pie is just awful. and yes, bad pecan pie exists.

Proof that the devil must exist.

the spiritual advisor of so many.