The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoConveniently enter your phone number with a single inputlemmy.worldimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up11.04Karrow-down124
arrow-up11.02Karrow-down1imageConveniently enter your phone number with a single inputlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareBunnylux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·9 months agoI rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
minus-squarezqwzzlelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoIt’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoThat one was my favourite. Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it. Hang on… would that work? An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits? Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.
minus-squarezqwzzlelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoFound it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.
I rarely laugh out loud and my coworkers are suspicious.
It’s not in the collection but I recall a phone entry where the slider would move along the digits of pi until you found your phone number.
That one was my favourite.
Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.
Found it https://i.imgur.com/rh0mDnK.gifv there is a discussion about this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3495590/proof-of-the-existence-of-all-phone-numbers-in-pi
Apparently all combinations of 10 digits appear in the first 241641121048 digits of pi.