Re: How many digits is pi computable to?

From: Bill Smythe (chichess_at_beforeRCNafter.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:59:10 -0600

"|-|erc" wrote:
> > The question (5 months ago) was.
> > An infinite amount of people each flip coins infinite times each.
> Can you
> > come up with a new sequence of flips?

Or, instead of using a countability argument (but still assuming the number
of sequences is countable and each sequence is countable), you can construct
a new sequence of coin flips as follows:

If the first flip by the first person was heads, define the first flip in
the new sequence to be tails, and vice versa.

If the second flip by the second person was heads, define the second flip in
the new sequence to be tails, and vice versa.

Et cetera.

That way, the new sequence will be different from the Nth previous sequence
at the Nth flip. Hence, the new sequence will be different from all the
previous sequences.

Bill Smythe

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