I wonder whether Sagan was falling prey to the confusion about whether pi is a mathematical constant or a physical constant. Personally, I think we should look for a message from God in the digits of seventeen. I mean, everyone says that after the decimal point there's just a whole lot of 0's --- but how far out have they looked? Jim Propp On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net> wrote:
My recollection is that the PI bit was seen as sort of a message from God proving that there was a design.
On the other hand, since PI has an infinite number of nonrepeating digits, such finite patterns MUST exist.
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