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by dmoo 4386 days ago
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."