>> If we found an unambiguous message encoded into the digits of pi that
>> would certainly get my attention.
>
>Even though a random digit string of infinite length can be expected to
>contain any given substring if you keep looking long enough? What would
>qualify such a message as "unambiguous"? A combination of content and
>position?
Yes, I would be pretty freaked out if my program discovered a message
that said "a program created by David McFadzean will find this message
encoded in standard ASCII starting at the trillionth digit of Pi at
4:18:33 GMT on May 14, 2003" and all the information contained in the
message was precisely correct. How would it make you feel?
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/