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by nirai 4386 days ago
at what index does the ascii encoding of the entire works of Shakespeare begin?
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I could write the index number here, but it would probably be about as long as the entire works of Shakespeare.
Have they found this bit from Contact yet "When Ellie looks at what the computer has found, she sees a circle rasterized from 0s and 1s that appear after 10^20 places in the base 11 representation of π. This gives her a way to convince the world of something greater – that intelligence is built into the universe itself."