The other day, I did a mini-investigation into an interesting maths tweet from Cliff Pickover. Here’s another:
Scream! The string 79873884 1st occurs in Pi at position 79873884, counting from 1st digit after the decimal point. pic.twitter.com/kcASDJSV1A
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) April 21, 2015
This fact is beautiful, but is it surprising?