“You can look at numbers for years and centuries and they will
dead. But sometimes, as if from the wind, these numbers
come to life like strings that have not been played for a long time.
And so they started talking …”- Vladimir Khlebnikov Planks of Fate.
From the editor: this article was sent to us by Vladimir Alekseevich Kondryakov - the record holder of the "Russian Book of Records" and the creator of a progressive method of memory training. The material is a continuation of an extensive article, the first part of which is located here.
I've always been interested in the inner meaning of numbers. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics do not reflect their hidden essence. Figuratively speaking, if you represent any numbers in the form of a chemical element and combine it with another element consisting of words, then a "chemical verbal-digital reaction" will occur. And the output will be an unexpected result - reasonable information. Then numbers can really "speak".
I found out about this quite by accident, while preparing to set a memory record based on pi. Only after numerous experiences, research and experiments did I manage to learn how to extract real pictures from any numbers and easily memorize them. This is stated in my article: “How I went to the record. Research and Conclusions.
After setting the Russian record, I became interested in studying other unknown segments of the pi number and finding interesting information in them. The texts of the paintings, on various topics, are arranged in the number as randomly and unpredictably as the numbers themselves. Moreover, the volume of texts can be any and fit in segments from several tens to hundreds or more numbers. Any artificial establishment of a framework for the amount of information can play the role of a "Procrustean bed" and affect the integrity of the picture. I began to extract this information not in order to remember it, but to study its content.
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Pi contains a lot of information on everyday topics or side information. And the most valuable facts, for example from history, are extremely rare. To find a text on a given topic, you need to work through the entire chain in a row, not knowing where it is. This search can take years, and "the mountain will give birth to a mouse."
I decided to develop a technology for finding information on a given topic, using computer technology. To this end, I downloaded 4,000,000 digits of Pi after the decimal point into the computer memory and began to work with them.
If you write this number on a tape in one line (with the width of each digit together with an interval of 4 millimeters), then its total length will be 16 km. And with a ribbon of 11 billion digits, you can girdle the globe along the equator. Searching for reason in such an "ocean" of numbers is a futile idea. Scientists - mathematicians experienced the same difficulties when they manually performed calculations for the number Pi.
The way out was found by using the "key fragment" method, which can be in any text. Its correct and high-quality choice, turned into a set of 5-8 digits, will help the computer find it on any part of the tape in 4,000,000 or more digits. And near the found fragment, with a high degree of probability (before or after the key phrase), there may be a digital continuation of the text on a given topic.
This method is not new. It is used in some scientific research. For example, paleontologists based on fossil fragments can determine the type of living organism. And connoisseurs of painting determine its name and artist from a fragment of a painting. Following the same principle, I decided to work with pi.
Using the same technique, by the method of notation-numerical coding, it is possible to find unknown musical works among Pi. Some musicians already know how to extract beautiful music from numbers. There are opportunities here for artists to create abstractions based on numbers.
My first order to the computer consisted of a key phrase in numbers, talking about Russia in the era of Peter-l. The answer was received in a few seconds. Information on the 183rd thousand decimal places really turned out to be about Russia. After decryption, its text fit into a segment of 169 numbers.
Any information given out in numbers has its own specifics and is not an example of the correct literary Russian language, as for any foreign language. But its content convincingly shows the facts of the history of Russia in the era of Peter. I am presenting this text without any exceptions or amendments. This is how the numbers give it, and this is how I found it in the labyrinths of the number Pi. The search method is shown in my article: "Caches of the mind in the labyrinths of the number Pi".
Here is how it reads literally: “… From the district forces arrived and found the enemy on the shore. Only yesterday they were planning an assault by the river and Peter had Oreshek. Here the course to the sea was broken. At the thicket they were slightly entrenched. And at the bend of the river, fogs, streams and pumping slabs. Still withered lawns, mosses and bumps. In the north, the land of Russia and the city next to the sea. And the Neva was blocked by Peter's galleys. They cut down houses and forty warm huts near the hare lands for the warriors. There are also a lot of guns and squeaks near Peter's house. The war was hard there. It was 1700 and the tsar's men went further north. There were blows and trouble. More keys to the "targets", corpses and gunfire. They walked and sowed new land. Only for the father of the tsar was it customary to play with bayonets and was already quicker to snatch victory. The tsar did not tolerate easy studies and called for work. He made galleys and ships at the coast. And then there was Poltava … ".
The first success inspired me to search for new facts from the life of Russia. On the second order, according to a fragment, the computer indicated the place (at the 40th thousand characters), where it was said about Russia. Here is the content of the text: “Glory to Russia, the motherland of the world. You settled people who roamed. I went to defend their faith, mature teachings, and beat the enemy. She had wars and good luck. More wide rivers and wonderful mounds. Gardens, forests and mountains, fields and trails adorned the land. Her hopes were less inspired by orders than ideas from departed pundits. Higher powers carried her banner, and "march" went from grief to brother. They were pulled to “paradise” by tempting goals, but the benefits collapsed and the steps weary …”.
Further studies have shown a pattern of growth in the volume and variety of information as the number of decimal places increases. Currently, scientists - mathematicians have calculated more than 12 trillion digits of this number. When the count goes to hundreds and thousands of trillions, there will be no restrictions in the variety of information. Among them, with the help of super-powerful computers, it will be possible to find absolutely any data through their key fragments in a matter of hours.
It can be well-known and not yet written literary works, and especially valuable information. Unless a country that has achieved such success does not classify all these results for obvious reasons. In this case, an unofficial race for the development of yet another endless "space" - digital, may arise among developed countries. This process will stimulate the well-known statement of the representatives of the Rothschild dynasty: "Who owns information, he owns the world."
Anticipating such a development of events, I decided to search (without hope of success) through a set of key numbers for the first line from L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina": "Everything is confused in the Oblonskys' house …". From this fragment, the computer produced only the first two words and a preposition at 42 thousand digits after the decimal point. Next to these words of the great writer was digital information about a drunk-loser, which I had never expected. These are the lines: “Everything was confused in a tavern near St. Petersburg. The "fool" came in and found fault with the glass. I immediately ate pasties and choked on pepper. Dumped a bunch of meat from the bowl, got drunk for two times … ". There is no point in continuing further. After this unsuccessful experiment, it became clear to me that I was looking for the genius lines of L. Tolstoy in the wrong place. I immediately imagined a segment of the number Pi, of 4 million digits, in the form of a small "lake", and not a mighty "ocean". And in small reservoirs, as you know, not all fish can be found …
See also:
Finds in the wilds of constants
Caches of the mind in the labyrinths of Pi
Phenomenal memory - secrets of the human brain
Author: Vladimir Alekseevich Kondryakov