English Dictionary

Feynman point

固有名詞

The position (at the 762nd digit after the decimal point) in the decimal expansion of pi at which a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears, unexpectedly early in view of the expected and otherwise apparent randomness of said expansion.

日本語の意味

円周率の小数展開において、小数点以下762桁目から6個の9が連続して現れる位置を指す名称。 / 予想されるランダムな展開にも関わらず、予期せず早期に現れる連続する6つの9の箇所として注目される点。

During the lecture, she pointed out the Feynman point as a striking example of surprising patterns in the digits of pi.

講義で彼女は、πの小数展開において762桁目に初めて現れる、6つの連続した9の並びが出現する位置を、πの桁に見られる驚くべきパターンの顕著な例として指摘した。

意味（1）

The position (at the 762nd digit after the decimal point) in the decimal expansion of pi at which a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears, unexpectedly early in view of the expected and otherwise apparent randomness of said expansion.

What is the Feynman Point? The Feynman Point was named after Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918–1988), who once joked he wanted to memorize pi up to 999999 ... and so on and so on, as if to say pi continues from the Feynman Point with nines forever. This is not true, of course, and the sequence of nines is a mere coincidence—thus, the joke of the Feynman Point.