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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:04:00 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <1f87e271f28067836cabd2199a7ea473@www.novabbs.com>,
HenHanna  <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:

>         Really?   i thought  Pi was random.

What would it mean for a number to be random?  A random process
producing decimal digits is just as likely to produce 1.1111...
as pi.

It's not even known if the digits of pi are uniformly distributed.

-- Richard