Today, as some of you know, is PI Day — the day of the year, March 14, when the calendar reaches the digit representation of PI (3.14159…).
In yesterday’s post I mentioned Vi Hart. And today I am pleased to refer to Vi’s yearly PI Day offering — a disquisition on the question of whether PI is a “normal” number — that is, a number which contains every possible string of digits (and therefore not only every literary work ever written but that ever could be written).
I actually wrote on this topic four years ago, in my post All the songs ever written, and one song. But Vi has gone further, by creating a lovely philosophical video essay in which a certain Danish canine asks some deep existential questions, entitled Are Shakespeare’s Plays Encoded within Pi?.