How about ANY FINITE SEQUENCE AT ALL?

  • juliebean@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    no. it merely being infinitely non-repeating is insufficient to say that it contains any particular finite string.

    for instance, write out pi in base 2, and reinterpret as base 10.

    11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101...
    

    it is infinitely non-repeating, but nowhere will you find a 2.

    i've often heard it said that pi, in particular, does contain any finite sequence of digits, but i haven't seen a proof of that myself, and if it did exist, it would have to depend on more than its irrationality.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Isnt this a stupid example though, because obviously if you remove all penguins from the zoo, you're not going to see any penguins

      • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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        2 days ago

        They also say "and reinterpret in base 10". I.e. interpret the base 2 number as a base 10 number (which could theoretically contain 2,3,4,etc). So 10 in that number represents decimal 10 and not binary 10