From: Pvthur@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 17:22:24 MST
In a message dated 3/8/2002 11:27:12 AM Mountain Standard Time,
hal@finney.org writes:
<< It's also hard to see how anyone could put a message into Pi. That
is such a simply defined number, how could it have a message? It's
almost provably impossible. It would make more sense to put a message
into Newton's gravitational constant G, something physical rather than
mathematical. Of course it's a lot harder to find the 100th digit of
G than to do so for Pi. >>
Yeah... It might work better with something else, but this was fiction.
Everybody's heard of Pi, even if they can't define it. So why not make it
easy to understand. A circle hidden within a circle. Simple, elegant.
That is also an ending. A good ending. She went looking for something 'out
there,' and found it right under her nose. Those assheads who made that corny
movie missed the boat.
Jo?n
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