Mystery about irrational numbers

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I'm new here as you can see.

There is a mystery about $\pi$ that I heard before and want to check if its true. They told me that if I convert the digits of $\pi$ in letters eventually I could read the Bible, any book written and even the history of my life! This happens because $\pi$ is irrational and will display all kind of finite combinations if we keep looking its digits.

If that's true then I could use this argument for any irrational.

My question is: Is this true?

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It is absolutely false that all irrational numbers have that property.

For example, look at $$ 0.10110\underbrace{111}0\underbrace{1111}00\underbrace{11111}0\underbrace{111111}\ldots $$ and continue the pattern. That number is irrational and does not have the property described.

Whether $\pi$ is what is called a normal number is actually not known, and that is what you would need.

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$\pi$ is just another number like $5.243424974950134566032 \dots$, you can use your argument here. Continue your number with number of particles of universe, number of stars, number of pages in bible, number of letters in the bible, and so on. And 'DO NOT STOP DOING SO, if you do the number becomes rational'.

There are another set of numbers which are formed just by two or three numbers in its decimal expansion, take an example :$0.kkk0\underbrace{kkkk}0\underbrace{kkk}000\underbrace{k}0000\underbrace{kk}\ldots$, where $0<k \le 9$. An irrational number is just defined as NOT Rational number. In other means, which can't be expressed in the form $\dfrac{p}{q}$.

When I was reading about $\pi$, I just found this picture, Crazy $\pi$.

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