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A Piece of Pi challenge

Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:40 pm
by DaymItzJack
I'm pretty sure I'm doing this one correctly and I got the position it's on but it's not accepting it. I've tried all the numbers around the number I thought it was too (in case I was off by one or so). Am I reading the challenge wrong or do you think my text file of pi is wrong?

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:38 pm
by OvO
there are no dots in the number (e.g. 123.32123'th number).
too big hint?

Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:46 am
by Masti6
Okay, I got as long Pi as I could, but couldn't find the "12345678" even once in the whole pi.
Is that a trick question or...

Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:24 am
by CodeX
Funnily enough I've got Pi lying around on a shell to 100,000,000 places in text form (somewhat overkill) here, you shouldn't try to open it in your browser as its 100MB (95+MiB) but you can "Save As" the link.

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:29 pm
by samael84
Got the same problem as masti.I found a lot of sides which offered pi to the digit x.trillionbut i could not find the string.1234 is no prob and 12345.Can anyone who did the quest offer me his list.I don't know which one to use ^^° @ wolframalpha.com there is only a image of the digits and i believe the pi-string is too short.

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:12 pm
by DamaTeq
I didn't use a list or something... hope that helps ;)

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:49 pm
by Masti6
Bumping this topic as I'm visiting this site once again for a long time.
I'm using Python to count the Pi to as far as my processor can take it, but still no luck.
Even if I could find the string in the Pi I don't know how to determine the spot it's at in the Pi.
If anyone could send me a PM with an example code of finding a specified string within a string and return the index of the specified string as a decimal.
That would help a lot!
Thanks in advance!

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:21 pm
by CodeX
Isn't that half the challenge, to figure these things out?

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:26 pm
by moby
Pleas Guys i've tried 100'000'000 digit :cry:

is there a trick or i am not there yet or did i made a mistake :?:

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:56 am
by rmplpmpl
moby wrote:Pleas Guys i've tried 100'000'000 digit :cry:

is there a trick or i am not there yet or did i made a mistake :?:
Go on :)

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:06 am
by iorange
If you cant's find the answer, please try to get 200,000,000 of pi... 100,000,000 is truly not enough :D