pipad, was Re: bounded storage model - why is R organized as 2-d array?

[Travis H.]

Anyone see a reason why the digits of Pi wouldn't form an excellent
public large (infinite, actually) string of "random" bits?

There's even an efficient digit-extraction (a/k/a "random access to
fractional bits") formula, conveniently base 16:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBPFormula.html

I dub this "pi pad".

Is this idea transcendental or irrational?
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[Moderator's note: I'd say "irrational" but I'll let other people
chime in first. --Perry]
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