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I have recently received a number of letters. The inside of the
envelopes have all included some measure to obscure the contents to
prying eyes.

Two included a geometric pattern, but the third, from Churchill, was
more interesting, it contained the repeated sequence of digits as follows:

078806697382548726870788066973825487268707880669738....

Do we know what that sequence is? It is clearly not random.

Apologies, if I have miss-transcribed the sequence.

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On 12/08/2025 19:02, David Entwistle wrote:

I have recently received a number of letters. The inside of the
envelopes have all included some measure to obscure the contents
to prying eyes.

Two included a geometric pattern, but the third, from Churchill,
was more interesting, it contained the repeated sequence of
digits as follows:

078806697382548726870788066973825487268707880669738....

Do we know what that sequence is? It is clearly not random.

No 1s. Perhaps that's because 1 has fewer inked "pixels" to
offer. But why they don't just print solid black is anyone's guess.
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Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> posted:

I have recently received a number of letters. The inside of the
envelopes have all included some measure to obscure the contents to
prying eyes.

Two included a geometric pattern, but the third, from Churchill, was
more interesting, it contained the repeated sequence of digits as follows:

078806697382548726870788066973825487268707880669738....

Do we know what that sequence is? It is clearly not random.

Apologies, if I have miss-transcribed the sequence.

is Churchill a city?
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:45:45 +0100, Richard Heathfield
<rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

No 1s. Perhaps that's because 1 has fewer inked "pixels" to
offer. But why they don't just print solid black is anyone's guess.

Good guess and I figure that may very well be the answer given
that there are a lot of "heavy" digits -- 6s and 8s.

As for your question, it may just be a question of how much ink
they want to use. In my experience all such obscuring patterns in
"safety" envelopes are some kind of wavy lines, etc. and never
just uniform black. I also wonder if people do not like using an
envelope that is fully black inside.
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On 13/08/2025 19:04, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

is Churchill a city?

Ah, no. I should have said. Churchill is an UK insurance company. They
had a British bulldog as a mascot.

https://www.churchill.com/
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