Sentence examples for sequence of digits from inspiring English sources

The root of fascination with pi is the fact that the ratio of the circle's two simplest measurable quantities – the distance around it and the distance across it – produces a number that is so complicated: its digital expansion continues for ever, churning out a sequence of digits with no apparent pattern.

We have a sequence of digits that looks like gibberish".

The Chudnovsky brothers claim that the digits of pi form the most nearly perfect random sequence of digits that has ever been discovered.

In the case of a square with sides of length 1, the diagonal is √2, written as 1.414213562…, where the ellipsis indicates an endless sequence of digits with no pattern.

And in the little death of each illuminated sequence of digits counting down from nine to one, over and again, the numbers sweeping across the darkened floor of Inigo Jones's Queen's House at Greenwich on the Meridian line in Miyajima's Running Time installation, was it this distance they were counting?

The number 2012 was emblazoned on it in large white print and for a moment Eileen felt disoriented, as if that sequence of digits, the year they represented, were an unreachably long way away into the future, instead of already gone.

WM was assessed using an implicit verbal N-back task [ 6, 14], in which subjects were presented a sequence of digit numbers, and had to determine whether the currently displayed stimulus at any given time had been already displayed in the previous presentation (1-back condition, low WM load); or in the second-to-previous presentation (2-back condition, high WM load) (see figure 1).

The modern (digital) computer encodes both data and instructions as sequences of digits, and it allows for the internal storage of instructions.

The idea that thoughts can be captured and distilled down to cold sequences of digits is controversial, Hinton said.

In the meantime the Babylonians had introduced zero as a placeholder in about 300 B.C., a symbol to distinguish like sequences of digits from each other.

After all, other famous irrational numbers, like e (the base of natural logarithms) and the square root of two, bridge different areas of mathematics, and they, too, have never-ending, seemingly random sequences of digits.