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josh's clients aren't stupid, they're smartjosh's clients aren't stupid, they're smartPosted May 10, 2011 19:05 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)In reply to: josh's clients aren't stupid, they're smart by dskoll Parent article: Scale Fail (part 1)
> I could construct a degree-71 polynomial that fits the 71 digits you
> posted and say "Yes, that's the generator!"
That would be a pattern, but not an interesting one.
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josh's clients aren't stupid, they're smart Posted May 10, 2011 19:07 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Sorry, what I meant to say was, that polynomial would not represent a pattern in the sequence itself.
A non-interesting pattern would be something like the observation "this is a number!" or the observation that all digits from 0 to 9 occur.
josh's clients aren't stupid, they're smart Posted May 12, 2011 11:39 UTC (Thu) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
A more interesting pattern in PI would be this one:
http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mf55-spoiler.html
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