Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 17)

[Erik Max Francis]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Ah, you've been reading Contact again, haven't you?  :-)

Probably just that pi is normal:

	http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html

It has not been proven that pi is normal, but it is strongly suspected. 
If it's normal, then every finite sequence of digits in any base _does_
appear with the expected frequency.

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