Re: Hello There?

Robert Low <mtx014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> And didn't Carl Sagan write a bizarre
> novel in which a circle encoded into
> the digits of pi was proof of the
> existence of God?

There was some kind of message encoded in pi in the
book. Unfortunately, this nonsensical idea was not taken up in the
movie version.


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