(This story is translation form Swedish)

This is a greatly shortened, and so unavoidably stunted and blunted,
translation of http://www.samuelsiren.com/pi.html

The original essay (written in Swedish) is really funny and hilariously
awesomely humbling!

---------------- Here it goes:


He Stole My Walking Stick


The ultimate truth is within grasp!

To begin with, encode all letters as sequences of 8-bit ASCII so that "A"
becomes 065, "B" 066, BA 066065, and so on.

Then let's seek along the length of Pi (3.14159...) for the first instance
of any two-letter word, such as:

Word ASCII CODE Begins at decimal place #

is 105115 2,614,173

or 11114 141,899

(etcetera)

The formula for the average number of steps that has to be trodden into the
decimal development of Pi before an ASCII coded 3-letter word begins is

Average # of Steps = 10^3n

This means that if the number of letters and other symbols in an utterance
is 33 - such as "He nastily stole my walking stick"- then one finds it on
average starting at place # 10^99. That is, on average no later than on the
1/10 of a gogool (10^100).

Given we search long enough every utterance ever produced will be found in
Pi's infinitely long string figures. Not only that but all books that ever
will be written is already in there.

But this is not all: Also the books that could have been written but were
not is to be found not in the sky but in Pi.

Same goes for every film ever filmed, or not; since all films can in
principle be Mpeg encoded.

Even every single person's - even every creature's - life (even in principle
exists as an Mpeg film somewhere in the sequence of numbers of Pi.

Absolutely everything that can be described and encoded as a sequence of
figures exists in the infinite sequence of Pi, and it even exists there
relatively "early".

In fact, one only have to search an infinitely small portion of Pi to find
all this!

Since the scope of the infinite figure sequence in Pi is such that every
describable truth exist there - together with every theoretical (or other)
untruth.

This fact highlights how important it is that we use every sophisticated
method at our disposal to sort out truths from untruths. And if there is a
key to universal knowledge to be found, it exist exists there - inside Pi!

Even though the task of sorting truths from untruths is obviously enormous,
let's not delay taking decisive action towards completing this our important
task!

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Peter F (translator)
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