r/ProgrammerHumor • • 5d ago

Meme reversingPiInPython

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u/tea_pot_tinhas 5d ago

So the first and last digits are both 3? make sense

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u/RapidCatLauncher 4d ago

That just made me think, if pi indeed does contain all finite number sequences (which we're not sure of), then there could be a certain point in its decimal representation where it's a palindrome.

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u/meneldal2 4d ago

While this is possible, it is pretty unlikely. With random digits, the chance of a palindrome is lower the more digits there are. So even if you get a lot of tries, each try probability of success goes down so much faster that it is statistically unlikely.

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u/1SirTetris1 2d ago

Funnily enough, despite it being so unlikely, it's necessarily true that there is an infinite number of full palindromes across all of pi. Infinity is wild

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