Is it possible for the equation to end? What would happen if mathematicians discover it (or find a pattern)?
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Anonymous2007-03-27 9:03 ID:dyQARN1g
They might find a pattern. What would happen? Nothing.
There is no reason in principle why it might not turn out that after the quadrillionth digit, the digits of pi are 3733733333373333333333333333333333337333... . (If this did happen, it would be utterly shocking to mathematicians, although perhaps not to anyone else.) Pi is known to be irrational, but this only rules out "periodic" patterns, where a fixed sequence of digits repeats exactly the same, over and over.