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Wednesday, August 15, 2001
http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=5879 Scientists Envision Applications for Pi In Encrypted Internet Transactions Implementation Relies on Proving Number is ‘Random’ By TEZ WEEGE, Contributing Writer Nearly 3,000 years after ancient craftsmen attempted to unlock the secrets of pi—3.14, the number that often tortures geometry students—to build the great Temple of Solomon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists are taking another look at the mysterious number, which could be used to secure Internet transactions. It is commonly known that pi is irrational, meaning the sequence of digits never repeats itself. But the lab scientists are now trying to prove that pi, commonly abbreviated as 3.14159, is "random."...
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