{"id":4119,"date":"2013-12-22T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2013-12-22T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:41:12","slug":"my-phone-number-is-in-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/12\/22\/my-phone-number-is-in-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"My phone number is in pi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQUkXyksz8f1OxrTmY7tmwfHI9kr7kbL-JHlSDACtzxW4gInxvNA\" alt=\"pi\" width=\"150\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\nI found a website that allows you to search the number \\(\\pi\\)  for stings of numbers. The Pi Searcher can search for any string of digits (up to  length 120) in the first 200 million digits of \\(\\pi \\). <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The number \\(\\pi \\) is transcendental meaning it cannot be written as any combination of rational numbers and their n-th roots.<\/p>\n<p>Phone numbers here in Poland are 7 digits and it turns out that there is a\u00a0 99.995% chance that the Pi Searcher can find it, Of course, if it can&#8217;t find it then it may well be still in \\(\\pi \\) somewhere,\u00a0 which is related to the fact that we think it is a<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Normal_number\" title=\"wiki\" target=\"_blank\"> normal number<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway my home phone number here in Poland appears 10 times in the first 200 million digits! My IOP number (6 digits) appears 186 times!<\/p>\n<p>Try it for yourself at the link below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angio.net\/pi\/\" title=\"pi\" target=\"_blank\">The Pi Search Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a website that allows you to search the number \\(\\pi\\) for stings of numbers. The Pi Searcher can search for any string of digits (up to length 120) in the first 200 million digits of \\(\\pi \\). The number \\(\\pi \\) is transcendental meaning it cannot be written as any combination of rational &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/12\/22\/my-phone-number-is-in-pi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My phone number is in pi!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}