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Old 11-05-2008, 01:24 PM   #1180
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
If you can prove the correctness of your value of pi, far more than a dissertation awaits you.

(I liked the Fred Pohl story where it was discovered that if you calculated pi out to enough digits, you encountered a coded message placed there for anyone sophisticated enough to read it.)
I'm guessing that Pohl's story was written before Carl Sagan used the same premise in Contact....
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