• Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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        7 months ago

        Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?

        • lad@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          I haven’t looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I’d guess

        • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.

      • lad@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.

          • glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 months ago

            PI is not proven to be normal number. It means that those infinite digits repeating may not have uniform distribution, so somewhere far away in PI you can start just getting 1s,2s and 3s for example.

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            7 months ago

            The point is that just because π is infinite it isn’t guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.