If primes derived from pi are not suspect, then that surely goes for primes derived from 1&#x2F;pi, e, sqrt(2)... as well? What about bit order, byte order?<p>The problem is that there are lots of small choices involved in picking &quot;nothing up my sleeve&quot; numbers and deriving data from them. Each small choice may seem trivial in isolation, but taken together, the parameter space is so large that you can derive virtually anything from &quot;nothing up my sleeve&quot; numbers.<p>Bernstein et al. made a point of exactly this in the paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bada55.cr.yp.to&#x2F;bada55-20140722.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bada55.cr.yp.to&#x2F;bada55-20140722.pdf</a> by deriving the string &quot;BADA55&quot; from &quot;nothing up my sleeve&quot; numbers.