Re: Zero digits in powers




Le 17/06/2005 03:55, dans
1118973329.728644.184320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
« vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx » <vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
>> Le 17/06/2005 03:35, dans
>> 1118972154.204248.69090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> « vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx » <vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>>> I vaguely recall a story that in the 1960s some Russian programmers
>>> were using middle digits from products of two big numbers as a "random
>>> number generator".
>>
>> Maybe you'll want to have a look at this thread "Manansala Random Number
>> generator". I believe there was a discussion on that topic, at one point.
>>
>
> Heck, I am just trying to give productive suggestions as to how to
> explain the phenomenon in this thread: zeros in 2^n.
>

Sorry :-)

It's perfectly understandable that numbers with as many as 10000 digits
with no particular a priori digit distribution property, will have some
"0" digits in them. But what is *very* interesting is a proof ;-)
Anybody playing some time with the problem will believe the property
is reasonnably true, that's another matter to find a rigorous justification.

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