πFS

The metadata storage problem is the real punchline here. You end up needing more space for the metadata than the original data, so it's a zero-sum joke.

This is a classic

It is actually not proven that the decimal expansion (or any rational base expansion) of pi contains all possible sequences of numbers. It sounds like it intuitively would be since the expansion is infinite, but it is not necessarily true. For example, the number 0.101001... (i.e., decimal formed by concatenating N zeros and then 1 for all N 0 to infinity) is infinite, never-ending, and irrational but does not contain every sequence of numbers.

absolutely genius

Has there been attempts to prove the conjecture?

Why would anyone need πfs, since you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially on Linux.

What a brilliant idea! Of course, of course, it’s not in the repository so I can’t apt-get install it. Debian...always so far behind.

Horrible. Brilliant. Love it.

Looked at the repo but it says NOTHING about what value this project offers.

I mean, I get that it's "fun" to store information within the digits of pi. But is this just amusement, or is there a value prop for production use here?

(Speaking as a math major, by the way. I'm sympathetic to the cause.)

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This is interesting, but I feel like my use cases would better align with a different irrational number. Could I get an option to do this with e instead? /s

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