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Cut the decimal expansion of π into parcels of 10 digits: Mathematician John Conway points out that the chance is only about 1 in 40,000 that all of the digits 1234567890 will appear in any given parcel … and yet there they all are in the seventh. (Via Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann, π: A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number, 2004.)