NSA Might Be Listening, But PI Had Your Number Before You Were Born

[WillyT]

NSA might be listening, but pi had your number before you were born
Virtual-Strategy Magazine/Nanojems
Monday, August 26th 2013

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RENO, Nev., Aug. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanojems, a Reno, Nevada company has just engraved the first million digits of pi, 200 times more than other known engravings and a landmark feat for the never-ending constant. "Ok, so this is not just another number," says Jesse Adams, co-founder of the startup that has debuted its new artistic media by engraving the first million digits of pi on sapphire with gold. "The number is amazing, really," says Adams. "When you discover that your phone number, birthday, and full words and documents are already contained somewhere in pi, that's pretty amazing."

Adams says he got the idea for the project from the hit TV show Person of Interest. "There was a scene where character, Harold Finch, inventor of the all-watching 'machine', explains that pi has every number, and then if you translate letters into numbers, every word and every complete written work somewhere in its infinite digits. I thought this was amazing and then to think that you take any line and try to make a circle around it - you need pi times the length of that line to close the circle. You need every digit of pi! You need everything ever created encoded in that number to make one circle. That is beautiful!"

Some share Adams new found respect for pi. One of Nanojems' Kickstarter project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nanojems/million-digits-of-pi-pendant backers, and math teacher, Scott MacDonald, says "I am down in Vegas, and have not been so excited about a Kickstarter before. I'm getting married on pi day 2015: 3/14/15!" Another backer, in New York, Daqwan Koenig, says "..sorry I couldn't give more, I love the idea.." These guys are not alone, pi lovers are already preparing for the once in a lifetime pi day 2015, where at 9:26:53 in the morning the date and time will contain over 10 digits of pi. https://www.facebook.com/events/328804572620/

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Link: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/08/26/nsa-might-be-listening-pi-had-your-number-you-were-born

[mike_c]

1. this is so cool....

OK, my jaw is on the floor. This is one of those revelatory moments. An infinitely long number, encoding everything, is a necessary factor of every circle. Very cool.

[longship]

3. It is woven into the fabric of the universe.

Another one is "e" = 2.71828etc.

It is the base of the natural logarithm and is also is part of the universe.

I love irrational numbers.

Go Pi Day!

[pokerfan]

2. Pi is known to about 10 trillion digits

To put this into perspective, if one were to print out Pi at ten characters per inch it would be 1.7 astronomical units in length. That's from Earth to the Sun and most of the way back.

[defacto7]

4. PI is god!

[Jim__]

5. Yes, but, does pi = 2 ?

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Obviously not. Infinity is a strange concept. For instance, a string of any finite length of consecutive digits of pi can be found within the value of √2; and, a string of any finite length of consecutive digits of √2 can be found within the value of √3.