Re: How many digits is pi computable to?

From: |-|erc (h_at_r.c)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:59:33 +1000

"Bill Smythe" <chichess@beforeRCNafter.com> wrote in ...
> "|-|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

So this techniqe is correct?

Infinite people each flip coins infinite times.
Can you always find a different sequence of heads and tails?

Take one of the people, whatever his 1st flip was, reverse it! If he
flipped a head you select tail, if he flipped a tail, heads. That's
your first outcome, cross him off and select someone else, whatever was
their second flip, reverse it! Keep on going and you have an infinite
sequence that is different to everyone's sequence in atleast one flip.

X 0/10 WRONG F YOU'RE KIDDING! FAIL :(

its really quite simple, infinite people all doing the same thing you
are doing dispells any possibility of you being unique.

Surely rec.puzzlers can see the blind error sci.math is making with this
simple puzzle??

Herc

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