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Comment by pjungwir

13 years ago

    > All possible finite files must exist within π.
    > The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.

I'm surprised to hear this, since I had a buddy in high school in the early 90s who insisted on the same thing. Even then I could see the problem was storing the offset & length of the desired sequence would be worse than storing the sequence itself. This friend was brilliant, but he had a history of crazy half-joking ideas. He insisted the natural numbers don't exist, since you have to cross an infinite range of real numbers to get from 0 to 1.