01-13-2013, 05:15 PM
I LOVE stuff like this.
There is a great, heartbreaking PBS(?) drama starring Derek Jacobi on the life of Alan Turing, who spearheaded the cracking of the Enigma code. Turing is considered by many to be one of the fathers of computer science, and The Turing Test is a staple in subject of artificial intelligence.
A slight digression. On a recent episode of Person of Interest, Finch went undercover as a substitute teacher. One of the tidbits he used to try to engage the class was that pi not only contains somewhere within it every number and sequence of numbers, but if one were to perform a substitution of the alphabet for the numbers -- A=1, B=2, etc. -- pi would also contain every word and combination of words somewhere within it.
Blew. My. Mind.
Anybody know if this actually true, or just a case of creative license being employed?
There is a great, heartbreaking PBS(?) drama starring Derek Jacobi on the life of Alan Turing, who spearheaded the cracking of the Enigma code. Turing is considered by many to be one of the fathers of computer science, and The Turing Test is a staple in subject of artificial intelligence.
A slight digression. On a recent episode of Person of Interest, Finch went undercover as a substitute teacher. One of the tidbits he used to try to engage the class was that pi not only contains somewhere within it every number and sequence of numbers, but if one were to perform a substitution of the alphabet for the numbers -- A=1, B=2, etc. -- pi would also contain every word and combination of words somewhere within it.
Blew. My. Mind.
Anybody know if this actually true, or just a case of creative license being employed?