Beautiful Mind

Having recently read the book, "A Beautiful Mind" and less recently "Who wrote the Bible Code" (don't worry I thought the Bible code was hooey before I read this book, this book just had some interesting approaches for suggesting exactly why it's hooey), I thought I would take two disturbing ideas and merge them. What are the two ideas? One, you can get messages from numbers by converting numbers into base 26 with all numerals represented as the letters A-Z. Two, by skipping every n letters you can get wierd messages out of a textual corpus. Why would I do this? Have I gone over the edge?

No, and no.

I don't think any words that might appear in my corpus could be anything other than chance, I am merely checking out the probabilty that text might appear in a seemingly random set of letters.

What's the method to my madness. One d/l the first 100,000 digits of pi. Step two, use a little perl and Ken Williams, Math::BaseCalc to convert to base 26. Step three, wait longer than you think (Ken, can you make it faster?). Step four, using various skip steps look for words.

How I love perl!