IT WAS AROUND 5 A.M AND A GLIMPSE OF MORNING LIGHT BEGUN TO FILL MY STUDENT ROOM. MY EYES WHERE TIRED AND I HAD RUN OUT OF NEW PATTERN SEARCHING ALGORITHMS TO TEST.. MY OLD 386 PC WAS BOILING AND THE ENDLESS GENERATION OF NUMBERS ON THE GREEN SCREEN HIPNOTIZED ME INTO A DEEP DREAM.
THIS SCENARIO REPEATED FOR MONTHS, WITH SOME VARIATIONS OF COURSE, BUT WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND: TO FIND A SIGNIFICANT PATTERN IN PI.
PI HAS ACCOMPANY HUMANKIND THROUGH OUT HISTORY, REVEALING EACH CENTURY A BIT MORE OF ITS SECRETS AND INFINITY. I EVEN READ IN THE BIBLE A REFERENCE TO PI, THOUGH ITS VALUE WAS APROXIMATED TO 3.
I FOUND IN THE BIBLE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND NUMBERS.....YES NUMBERS.....THERE ARE MANY SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS MENTIONED ALL OVER.
FOLLOWING THIS LINE OF THOUGHT I BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH THE NUMBER 666.
I WROTE QBASIC PROGRAMS WICH LOOKED FOR PATTERNS USING 666 AS A GUIDE OR MASTERKEY.
AFTER SOME WEEKS I CAME UP WITH ONE SIMPLE ALGORITHM THAT I HAD NOT TRIED BEFORE:
. IF WE CONSIDER THE NUMBER 666, AND THEN INTERPRET THIS
NUMBER AS IF IT WHERE A COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COMMAND
THAT IS TELLING US TO ADD THE FIRST 6 DECIMAL DIGITS OF PI
"1415982" PLUS THE SECOND 6 DIGITS "653589" PLUS THE THIRD 6
DIGITS "793238", THEN WE HAVE:
PI =3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169299375...
141592 + 653589 + 793238 = 1588419
I SOON REALIZED THAT 88419 APPEARED SOME DIGITS AHEAD ON PI, BUT WHAT
DOES 15 MEAN ?
THIS QUESTION FOLLOWED ME EVERYWHERE FOR THE NEXT MONTHS, EVEN IN MY DREAMS WHERE I WOULD NOT REST SEARCHING FOR PATTERNS.....
BUT A DAY CAME WHEN I WAS LUCID ENOUGH TO SEE THAT 15 WAS THE NUMBER OF DECIMAL PLACES I HAD TO COUNT FROM THE THIRD 6 DIGITS TO ARRIVE TO 88419.
PI =3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169299375...
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15 PLACES
THOUGH I COULD NOT FIND OTHER PATTERNS OF THIS SORT I THINK THIS IS A CURIOSITY, OF THE ENDLESS CURIOSITIES PI HOLD FOR US TO UNVEAL
PABLO OLIVERA
DUBAI, 2005