We have a sequence of digits that looks like gibberish".
"Not everyone gets two home phone numbers — that's 14 digits, 14 digits that are all yours".
This will generate the digits that are part of the encryption process.
Expressed in digits, pi begins 3.14159..., and it runs on to an infinity of digits that never repeat.
The diodes generate a pattern of binary digits that are stored in the computer as a graphical image.
Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, predicted that, "if it got into four digits, that would arrest attention".
Among the most important are numbers derived from birth dates, like the sum of the digits that make up the day of birth.
The wider world, too, increasingly comes down to a bunch of ones and zeroes, an endless stream of digits that have drastic real-world effects.
The Chudnovsky brothers claim that the digits of pi form the most nearly perfect random sequence of digits that has ever been discovered.
But now he has a prosthetic replacement: a set of motorized digits that can clasp cans, flimsy plastic water bottles or even thin slips of paper.
Summarizing, each Bluetooth device incorporates a hexadecimal number of five digits that represent the Inquiry Access Code (see Figure 3).
