Math/pi/Six nines

• Six nines in pi - Wikipedia
  • starting with the 762nd decimal place of pi, there are six consecutive 9s.
  • Person/Douglas Hofstadter/Book/85/Metamagical Themas Quote

    • I myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes "999999", so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9s, and then impishly say, "and so on!"
      

  • This sequence of six nines is colloquially known as the "Feynman point", after physicist  Person/Richard Feynman, who allegedly stated this same idea in a lecture. However it is not clear when, or even if, Feynman ever made such a statement, as it is neither mentioned in his memoirs nor is it known to his biographer  Person/James Gleick.