value of pi and 22/7

[Erik Max Francis]

Jeffrey Gaynor wrote:
> It is the simple "fractional" look about pi vs. how hard it is to compute that drives most 
> of the confusion about pi. The digits of pi are in effectively random order (each digit occur 
> roughly 10% of the time), ...

This is equivalent to stating that pi is normal, something which is 
widely suspected but has not yet been proven.

> There are fun math questions, for instance, is there a run of a million 1's someplace in the 
> decimal expansion of pi?

The answer is yes, if pi is normal.  Every finite sequence of digits 
will appear with the expected frequency.  In all bases.

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