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Normal in this sense means that all the frequency of all digits approaches a uniform distribution as the length of the sample increases towards infinity. Basically if we could see "all of" π and count all the 0s, 1s 2s, 3s, &c to 9 all the counts would be equal.


That on its own can't be right, because 0.12345678901234.....

According to wikipédia, you gave a definition for "simply normal", and for normal numbers the distribution of any sequence of digits is uniform. So 00, 01, ..., 99 each occur uniformally too.


Moreover you need to consider it with regards to all other bases than 10 too.




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