The Decimal Expansion of π Is Not Statistically Random

DOI10.1080/10586458.2013.870504zbMath1294.62253OpenAlexW2008853956MaRDI QIDQ2875527

R. E. Ganz

Publication date: 8 August 2014

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10586458.2013.870504

zbMATH Keywords

normal numberssymbolic dynamicsrandom number generatorpiruns test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Non-Markovian processes: hypothesis testing (62M07) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Pseudo-random numbers; Monte Carlo methods (11K45)

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