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Topic: Does the octillionth digit of pi exist?
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Bill Taylor

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Registered: 11/17/10
Re: Does the octillionth digit of pi exist?
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 7:23 AM
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> HA! But now assume we don't take the octillionth (much too
> small :-) but, say, the googolplexth number and our universe isn't
> large enough to provide with the time, space and energy needed
> for calculating it. Also, replace pi (much too orderly, we might
> find a way to shortcut the calculation) by "the value of the
> mid cell of the 110 cellular automaton at the googolplexth iteration"
> or something incompressible like that, so the only way to
> calculate is actually running it. Does it still exist?


Yes.

I see we're getting the easy ones first.


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