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Doesn’t, the binary pattern 10101010 dosen’t exists on that number, for example.

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You can encode base 2 as base 10, I don’t think anyone is saying it exists in binary form.

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Well it’s infinite so it has to I guess

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Does this count:

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No, because you can’t mathematically guarantee that pi contains long strings of predetermined patterns.

The 1.101001000100001… example by the other user was just that - an example. Their number is infinite, but never contains a 2. Pi is also infinite, but does it contain the number e to 100 digits of precision? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is, we don’t know and we can’t prove it either way (except finding it by accident).

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