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How about ANY FINITE SEQUENCE AT ALL?

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 day ago

The jury is out on whether every finite sequence of digits is contained in pi.

However, there are a multitude of real numbers that contain every finite sequence of digits when written in base 10. Here's one, which is defined by concatenating the digits of every non-negative integer in increasing order. It looks like this:

0 . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ...
[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 1 points 12 hours ago

fun fact, "most" real numbers have this property. If you were to mark each one on a number line, you'd fill the whole line out. Numbers that don't have this property are vanishingly rare.

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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