From: Mark Murray on
On 11/06/2010 14:58, JSH wrote:
> Dude, I don't really read a lot of posts. I mostly skim them.

You don't read mathatmatics journals, textbooks or papers _at_all_.

> Nuff said.

Yup.

M
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Mark "No Nickname" Murray
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From: dannas on

"Mark Murray" <w.h.oami(a)example.com> wrote in message
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> On 11/06/2010 14:58, JSH wrote:
>> Dude, I don't really read a lot of posts. I mostly skim them.
>
> You don't read mathatmatics journals, textbooks or papers _at_all_.
>
>> Nuff said.
>
> Yup.
>
> M
> --
> Mark "No Nickname" Murray
> Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.


JSH can skim the wiki too.

But I think JSH skims himself as well.
That would explain quite a bit.


From: Ostap Bender on
On Jun 10, 11:18 pm, Tim Little <t...(a)little-possums.net> wrote:
> On 2010-06-11, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To you maybe, but does it exit in a way that indicates randomness in
> > the pi sequence, or not?
>
> > For instance you could do a series of low values for k, and see if it
> > exited with 1/N probability or less, or more.
>
> It is already well known that the first few billion digits of pi pass
> essentially all known statistical tests of uniform randomness.

Has this been tested base 10 only, or are the digits of pi uniformly
random for other bases?
From: Tim Little on
On 2010-06-12, Ostap Bender <ostap_bender_1900(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 11:18 pm, Tim Little <t...(a)little-possums.net> wrote:
>> It is already well known that the first few billion digits of pi pass
>> essentially all known statistical tests of uniform randomness.
>
> Has this been tested base 10 only, or are the digits of pi uniformly
> random for other bases?

At least bases 2, 3 and 10 have been tested to a few billion digits.
I have also seen bases 16 (hexadecimal), 27 (encoding English letters
plus space), and 256 (bytes) but those follow from the analysis of
bases 2 and 3 respectively.

I have a vague memory of an article reporting on arbitrary bases up to
a thousand or something (but with only a few million digits), but
can't seem to find it anymore.


- Tim
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