code:That’s the first 500 digits of the number, it’s been calculated by a Japanese firm to 5.02*10^11 (502,000,000,000) digits with no pattern found. Of course, for most people, having all those digits is preposterous. When doing calculations you may need to know it around to 3 digits, sometimes a little more, but 500 digits of accuracy is beyond the scope of any theoretical need.3.
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code:What did you notice there? Presumably it was the long string of 7s, right? Not very complex, those 7s. But the fact that they appear in the midst of such stagering complexity is what makes them grab your eye. So once again the complexity fo the system is the important, and the anomoly it produces becomes interesting. In fact those 7s are incredibly complex because there's no way to describe how they fit into the system. It's a problem that would permanently stump mathematicians (unless of course they knew I deliberatly planted them there and just randomly pressed keys for the rest ). The simplicity of the 7s in such a complex system is actually more complex than the numbers around it because it does not follow the same pattern they follow and yet is somehow still in the same group as them.348790238579013509246502378
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quote:Actually, I think the analogy holds up well here - the simple elegant dress has the same amount of information as the fancy dress, but the fancy dress also has more noise. (The unneccessary fanciness.) So the extraction of the information from the randomness has increased the interest by making that information more accessible to the viewer, effectively giving the viewer more information.
I am mostly thinking of asthetic (sp?) tastes. There is something beautiful about a simple, elegant dress that a fancy dress cannot compare to.
quote:Hobbes,
The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.