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   From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2026-02-19 14:47, David Brown wrote:   
   ...   
   > How likely is it that someone would guess a formula that happened to   
   > generate the decimal digits of pi, without more knowledge than a part   
   > of the sequence? I don't believe it is possible to quantify such a   
   > probability, but I would expect it to be very low.   
      
   I'm thinking of the kind of software that looks for patterns in   
   something, such as compression utilities. A compression utility   
   basically converts a long string of numbers into a much shorter string   
   that can be expanded by the decompression utility to recover the   
   original pattern. If you look at the algorithms such code uses, you   
   realize that they do not attempt to recreate the process that originally   
   generated the long string, they just, in effect, characterize the   
   resulting sequence.   
      
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