Re: A weird question about pi


Peter Webb wrote:

> The short answer is yes, almost certainly, but nobody even knows whether the
> digits "0", "1", ... "9" appear with equal frequency in the decimal
> expansion of pi.
>

It appears that the distribution is random for the first 100,000
places. Using the data from http://www.pisearch.de.vu/ to get the first
100,000 decimals, the following results ensue

Digit Appearances in first 100,001 digits (includes pre-decimal
3)

0 9999
1 10137
2 9908
3 10026
4 9971
5 10026
6 10029
7 10025
8 9978
9 9902

Further work would be needed to ensure that each digit is randomly
distributed throughout the first 100,000 digits, but it certainly does
appear to be so.

.

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