[mal10c]

"That's right! Every file you've ever created, or anyone else has created or will create! Copyright infringement? It's just a few digits of π! They were always there!"

I didn't think that was actually mathematically proven yet. Was some proof accepted recently that makes that quoted sentence true?

[nivekney]

The proof exists in πfs, you just need to know the metadata to retrieve it!

[Solvency]

But so do all of the lawyers' rebuttals! And I'll bet my money they'll find the metadata for them first...

[WillAdams]

There was an examination of this sort of thing in the webcomic Freefall --- shortest story is 6 words, 100,000 words for English vocabulary, order matters --- it worked out to a data storage unit the size of a small moon.

[teddyh]

Links:

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02058.htm>

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02059.htm>

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02060.htm>

[WillAdams]

Thanks for posting those! I was off by a factor of 10.

[ravi-delia]

No one has proved that pi is normal, true. But pi is normal. I mean come on! Like just between us, two friends talking, we both know that pi is normal. It'll be a nightmare to prove but I'd put extremely good odds on it. Probably better odds than RSA being secure, which is also not strictly proven but pretty likely.