#131 Happy Pi Day

 

in infinite pi

you can find any sequence

even this haiku

 

I can encode the haiku into this string of digits using a simple substitution cipher:

09140914060914092005160925152103011406091404011425190517210514030505220514200809190801091121

It’s 92 digits long, two digits for each letter.

Unfortunately, with ten possibilities for each digit and a string of 92 numbers, that means I’d have to go out to 10⁹² digits of pi in order to find it, on average. And to check all those digits would take the world’s fastest computer, which can do 55 quadrillion calculations a second, about 10⁶⁰ times the age of the universe.

We’re not going to be having Shakespeare pi any time soon.