Editing 10: Pi Equals

{{comic
| number    = 10
| date      = September 30, 2005
| title     = Pi Equals
| image     = pi.jpg
| titletext = My most famous drawing, and one of the first I did for the site
}}

==Explanation==
There are two possible references here. One is from the book ''{{w|Contact (novel)|Contact}}'' by Carl Sagan, where the existence of God was shown in the last chapter to be encoded in the digits of {{w|pi}}. The other is an old joke of a {{w|fortune cookie}} with a fortune that reads "Help! I'm trapped in a fortune cookie factory!" This joke is also referenced in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]]'s title text, where [[Mrs. Roberts]] [[Elaine Roberts|daughter]]'s name is "Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory."

[http://www.angio.net/pi/whynotpi.html Probability of Finding Strings In Pi.]

==Transcript==
:Pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7108914...

==Trivia==
*This is the eleventh comic originally posted on livejournal. The previous was [[9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow]]. The next was [[14: Copyright]]. View archive [http://liveweb.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40 here].
*The book version of this comic (in ''[http://store.xkcd.com/products/xkcd-volume-0 xkcd: volume 0]'') has different title text: ''"I've put rescue instructions in e. You'll need the cheat codes for your universe, which I hid in the square root of two."''

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