Comic #2923: 2013-05-19

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Panel 1: "An irrational number is called 'normal' if all the digits to the right of the decimal follow a uniform distribution regardless of base system."

Panel 2: "A more human friendly way to say that is this: if you pick a random digit to the right of the decimal, you have no idea what you'll get."

Panel 3: "A more poetic way to say that is this: if you assign letters to various number sequences, an irrational normal contains all the works of literature mankind will ever create, if you know where to look."

Panel 4: "So, for a given language conversion system, shouldn't there be a non-normal number that contains all the works of literature in chronological order, then just repeats 'balls balls balls' over and over again?"

Panel 5: "Yes. Those are the most hated numbers in mathematics."

Panel 6: "The balls constants."