Long ago when reading slush for a NY publisher, I opened a package to find a 'manuscript' purporting to prove that the real value of pi was 22/7. 22/7 is a repeating decimal, which was typed out at length to cover one page. That page was then duplicated, at smaller sizes, until there was a page that was just covered in unreadable rectangular blocks. Then the page of unreadable blocks was copied for another 700 pages, and bound in stiff boards. The effect of flipping through it was much the same as described here, with the additional undertone of insanity.
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Long ago when reading slush for a NY publisher, I opened a package to find a 'manuscript' purporting to prove that the real value of pi was 22/7. 22/7 is a repeating decimal, which was typed out at length to cover one page. That page was then duplicated, at smaller sizes, until there was a page that was just covered in unreadable rectangular blocks. Then the page of unreadable blocks was copied for another 700 pages, and bound in stiff boards. The effect of flipping through it was much the same as described here, with the additional undertone of insanity.