value of pi and 22/7

[Jeffrey Gaynor]

There are a few long strings, but have fun yourself with the pi digit searcher:

http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi

Longest string I heard of was nine 6's in a row, so search for 666666666 and see what you get.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Kelly" <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>
To: "Jeffrey Gaynor" <jgaynor at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: python-list at python.org
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:49:56 PM
Subject: Re: value of pi and 22/7

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Gaynor <jgaynor at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> There are fun math questions, for instance, is there a run of a million 1's someplace in the decimal expansion of pi? Maybe so, but we just don't know, since we've only computed the first trillion or so digits.

Since pi is irrational I would be surprised if there isn't one
eventually.  Out of my own curiosity, do you know what the longest
known string of repeating digits in pi is?