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What's this on your Etch-A-Sketch?
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Oh, those are some advanced mathematical formulas I've just been tinkering with.
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Meet Jason Padgett.
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Jason is a mathematical genius.
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The inner boundary of pi is f(x) = x sin (π/x).
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Oh, my god.
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How is this possible?
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Cyptography systems are based on mathematical problems so complex,
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they cannot be solved without a key.
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This is what's known as a "look-and-say sequence."
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Unlike many number sequences,
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this relies not on some mathematical property of the numbers themselves,
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but on their notation.