π Day!

 

Although I haven’t posted about it on the blog since 2020, π Day is celebrated every March 14 here at the Hopper household with unbridled gusto! Champagne, party hats, a few roman candles, plus dancing until the wee hours of the morning! Since we’ve entered Lent, and it’s a meatless Friday, we’re skipping the filet mignon and charcuterie board.

 

Now, with the assistance of AI, I offer you the Weirdest Fact About π –

 

The sequence 123456 will not be found in the first million digits of π. And π has been calculated out to over 62.8 trillion digits, so we’ll have to wait a bit before the location of that sequence is found.

 

And a bonus fact –

 

 A sequence of six nines (999999) can be found in π at the 762nd position in the digit expansion. This block of nines is known as the Feynman point, after physicist Richard Feynman (whose biography I read earlier this year), joked that he could recite all the digits of π up to this point.

 

Finally, about 17.3 billion digits in, you can spot the sequence 0123456789. (Is this the first appearance of 123456? Let me get a pencil and check …)

 

And really finally, there’s a website out there that will find the location of your birthday in the digit expansion of π. Haven’t checked it out yet, but it’s some fun to save for the weekend.

 

Happy π Day!