posted on 2025-05-10, 08:14authored byDavid H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Monica Dumitrescu, Alex Yee
Using the results of several extremely large recent computations, we tested positively the normality of a prefix of roughly four trillion hexadecimal digits of π. This result was used by a Poisson process model of normality of π: in this model, it is extraordinarily unlikely that π is not asymptotically normal base 16, given the normality of its initial segment.
History
Journal title
Experimental Mathematics
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pagination
375-384
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Language
en, English
College/Research Centre
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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This is an electronic version of an article published in Experimental Mathematics Vol. 21, Issue 4, p. 375-384. Experimental Mathematics is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1058-6458&volume=21&issue=4&spage=375