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[https://github.com/philipl/pifs](https://github.com/philipl/pifs)

π (or pi) is one of the most important constants in mathematics and has a variety of interesting properties (which you can read about at [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi))

One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is *normal*, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a *disjunctive sequence*, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it. If we consider π in base 16 (hexadecimal) , it is trivial to see that if this conjecture is true, then all possible finite files must exist within π. The first record of this observation dates back to [2001](http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/01/Jun/pi.html).

From here, it is a small leap to see that if π contains all possible files, why are we wasting exabytes of space storing those files, when we could just look them up in π!

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