So, I was watching the show Person of Interest, and I saw a really unique idea for a program.

The one main character created one of the worlds most powerful super computers, and it could pretty much monitor every security camera everywhere and stuff like that, and he made it for the Department of Defense. Obviously fake, but a unique idea. Not what this post is about either, just giving some background.

The other person in this scene is a supposedly genius kid who made a compression algorithm that would allow 230+ terabytes to fit on a single thumb drive. Though they never say the size of the thumb drive, lol.

But so the main character guy says "Here" and hands him a piece of paper. It has the first 3,000 digits of Pi on it. The genius kid goes "What's this for?" and the main character guy says "My phone number is somewhere in there. You're smart, I'm sure you'll find it." and it was intriguing to me.

My parents and sister were all talking about how they would cry if something like that happened to them because of how impossible it would be, but it seemed simple to me. All you would have to do is make a program that compares the digits on the paper to the digits of the normal Pi, and mark down any that are incorrect. From there, all it would take is calling every single combination of these numbers, or making all of the combinations and looking up the first three numbers of them as an area code, and cut out all of the ones that have a nonexistent area code or an area code that would be illogical, like in a complete different country or state or something.

Anyway, that's about it. I don't think that anyone would really be a genius to solve that. (Of course, I took an I.Q. test before and got a score of 158, but I don't really believe that. A friend of mine has 140, but I'm as smart as him, so I think mine is around there)