Famed Physicist Richard Feynman once joked that he wanted to memorize π up to the 762nd digit. Why? Because that’s where pareidolia kicks in, and the digits appear to briefly coalesce into rationality:
3.1415926535 8979323846 … [727 digits] … 9605187072 1134999999 …
He would end a hypothetical recitation at that point, the implication being that from there on the decimal repeats. Virtually everyone, obviously including Feynman, knows π is both irrational and transcendental, and thus such a fact is impossible. The so-called “Feynman Point” is the first incidence of six consecutive identical digits in π and it also happens to be the first incidence of four and five consecutive digits.
Happy Pi Day.