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Now a great adversary walks the Earth. He has the one thing the previous challengers lacked—the brain—with which he now prepares to take on Pi Piper of Hamlin. "Where was this challenger earlier?" "Where was the challenge?" "Just who is this challenger?" "Just what was the challenge?" "The sum of points that all coloured balls carry in snooker is 27. The number 27 appears at the 27th position in pi. If you remove the first 27 digits after the decimal point in pi (3.141 592 653 589 793 238 462 643 383), the series now begins with 27. There are only 5 such numbers in the first 50 million. You have to find the other four. That was the challenge." "Following are the numbers that come at the same position in the sequence of pi: 6, 27, 13,598, 43,611 (it even comes before this, but at another position) and 2,46,43,510. I am surprised that it happens only 5 times in 50 million numbers," says Rakesh Satija of Phillaur. "He is our challenger." "I’m old and can’t remember things clearly, but didn’t God say only one in a billion could find out all five digits?" "He did." "Then how did Rakesh Satija find it?" "He is one in a billion." "How?" "How many of us are there in this country?" "Say, a billion." "Right, and how many of us found all digits?" "One," "Who’s that one?" "Rakesh Satija," "What does it make him?" "Now I get it: one in a billion." "Eat a humble pi then." "I can’t; only one in a billion can eat it." (Write at Aditya Rishi, Mind Games, The Tribune, or aditya@tribunemail.com) |
THE
life of pi is not easy; it goes on. It changes, yet it’s constant. Pi
Saab is magical; Pi Saab is huge. You can’t eat a humble pi because it
will never end. Only Pi Piper of Hamlin can eat it and he is one in a
billion. When God created world, Pi Piper assisted him, for which he was
granted a boon. "I’ll tell you a number of all numbers. It will
be a great number made up of even more magical numbers. To know it
fully, you’ll have to first know five numbers and only one in a
billion will know that. You’ll be that one in a billion," God
said; so ever since the creation of the world, no one could challenge Pi
Piper of Hamlin, until now.