Can’t be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know
I think there's proofs to show that won't happen. Don't ask me to find them or explain them, it's beyond my scope.
What I'm waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.
kogasa@programming.dev 14 hours ago
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
I mean if pi is infinite, wouldn’t that happen anyway at some point?
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
I don't think that's a given. It's just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s really interesting, and matches my completely groundless intuition. Just because it could happen, even on an infinite scale, doesn’t mean it would. That makes sense to me at least.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Yeah, I mean math and even science aren't always intuitive, so we have to have rules and theories to go by that demonstrate repeatability. Subatomic physics doesn't even really work like our models say, it's just that the models give the best results in predicting what we'll find.
Another example is randomness. Not all random numbers are the same, it depends on how you derive them as to what you'll get. I guess in some way that's related to what numbers will pop up for an irrational number. It's said with enough monkeys randomly typing on typewriters eventually you'll get a Shakespeare work. It already happened a number of times... since we're in sense monkeys and got a number of Shakespeare works. Didn't even need typewriters.
Davel23@fedia.io 1 day ago
Ah, another Contact enjoyer.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Movie was pretty good. Book was excellent.