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Is there a secret message encoded within the first decimals of $pi$?

Source: Vi Hart

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Here’s my guess

Take the primary 100 digits of pi:
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679

STEP 1: Based on whether or not a digit is odd and even, convert it to AB format. Result:
ABAAA BBAAA BAAAA BABBB BBBAA BABAA ABBBB BAAAA BAAAA AAAAB ABBBA ABABB AABAB ABABB BBBBB BBBAA BBBBB ABBBA ABBAA ABAAA

STEP 2: This clearly pertains to Francis Bacon’s biliteral cipher (see wikipedia), a long-time favourite manner of hiding messages; nevertheless, that is apparantly an unpublished model of the cipher, since some mixtures are usually not in Bacon’s public alphabet.
The letter sample seems like this, nevertheless (i.e. which letters are repeated and the place and which letters are usually not repeated in any respect):

12345 673(repeats third letter, so the third letter within the message is repeated)38 9(10)(11)(10)(12) 5(12)9(13)1 (the parentheses are there to keep away from confusion when there are two digits within the quantity)

STEP 3: It is vital to know that anagrams have been a major type of cryptography in Bacon’s day (see wikipedia). Thus, once we produce the next gibbberish by easy monoalphabetic substitution (see wikipedia)…:

hltreknttoaswsieiafh

STEP 4: We can guess that it’s in truth an anagram, and never gibberish. Rearranging the letters and utilizing an “s” as a cease(interval), we get…..

“I do know the earth is flat.“

Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher

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Does this depend?:

Pi music (hyperlink solely sorry because of being a tune)

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