Fesshole 🧻My phone number is a 7-digit prime that shows up in the digits of pi. My husband's phone number is a 7-digit prime that shows up in the digits of e. We met when training students for the Maths Olympiad. The fess is how nerdy we both are.
silver moats@fesshole probably ill-conceived question from a non-maths student: if pi and e are never-ending numbers, does that suggest that any arbitrary 7-digit sequence has an equal likelihood of showing up at some point? non-repeating or prime sequences more probable than 7777777?
Nathan A. Stine@silvermoats @fesshole math degree here. If a number goes on forever and does not repeat in some cycle, any 7 digit sequence will be in the number. The number goes on forever so if you haven't found it yet, you just need to look further.
@stinerman @fesshole thanks, that was my intuitive understanding but OP got me wondering about the implications - not to get too pedantic though, assuming they're referring to a limited # of digits within which such a sequence could be observed as novel.
@stinerman @fesshole @fesshole I see this was covered earlier, couldn't view the replies on mobile for some reason