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If You Read Pi Long Enough, You’ll Find Hamlet

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It’s Pi Day! Which, okay, whatever, if you were really hardcore about celebrating you’d figure out what nanosecond corresponds to 3.14159 or whatever and pop the Moet then but you didn’t and you won’t so whatever, right? But! That doesn’t mean we can’t still have some fun with the nerdiest holiday in the land, thanks to YouTube mathemagician Vihart.

The video above is very mathy, but the bottom line: because pi keeps going and going foreverish, eventually you’ll run across a string of numbers that correspond with a Shakespeare play. It’s the ol’ infinite monkeys at inifinite typewriters shtick, except without all the infinite monkey poop to clean up after. [YouTube]

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