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Well mine isn't within the first 50 million. In any case, what's the relevance of this? Everything (with the correct encoding scheme) can be expressed somewhere in the decimal expansion of Pi.

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Without "(with the correct encoding scheme)" this is not a proven fact, i.e. it is not known whether Pi is a normal number [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

Even if it weren't a normal number it would still be true.

I found my birthday if I used MMDDYYY, but it didn't find it for YYYYMMDD. I tend to use the latter format when I'm date stamping files.

It's there. You just have to look harder for it :)

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