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[โ€“] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah. This is a plot point used in a few stories, eg Carl Sagan's "Contact"

[โ€“] Danitos@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago

Not accurate. Pi needs to be a normal number for that to happen, something yet to prove/disprove.

[โ€“] Metostopholes@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Replace numbers with letters, and you have Jorge Luis Borges' The Library of Babel.