Due to insane boredom in precalc in highschool I memorized π out to 22 decimal places. Over a decade later I still know it.
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    November 25th, 2011
Due to insane boredom in precalc in highschool I memorized π out to 22 decimal places. Over a decade later I still know it.
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3.141592 is as far as I can remember…
Pi has been around so long I think I’ve even come across some debates as to it’s accuracy, and whether the formula it represents retains sufficient accuracy to be correct.
All I know is we’d never be where we are without it!
If you look at “3.14″ in a mirror, it says “P1.Ԑ”
I like pie
Now I, even I, would celebrate (3.14159)
In rhymes unapt the great (26535)
Immortal Syracusan, rivaled nevermore, (8979)
Who in his wond’rous lore, passed on before, (32384626)
Made the way straight, how to circles mensurate. (43383279)
Yeah, I’ve had that particular mnemonic memorized for over twenty-five years now. Why do I spend brain cells on this?
So good to see that #ǿµ%$! robot back ! I missed him
My son’s school had a competition on the 314th day of the year (yes, Pie day).
One of the 5th-graders quoted Pi to 150 places and was still going when they stopped him.
I get my son to memorise useful things – he’s got the first 70 or 80 elements down pat, in order
I thought March 14 was Pi day? Cause it’s 3/14
Only in the US. In Australia March 14th is 14/3 which doesn’t make much sense.
Um, 14th of March? It goes dd/mm/yy(yy), it’s mm/dd/yy(yy) that makes no sense. Even yy/mm/dd is better. (Much better when sorting alphabetically, in fact)
Definately not where the saying easy as Pie comes from.
I think they abridged the quote. I think it was ‘As easy as eating pie’.
I had the mad idea of getting into the record books by memorising it (I had it to a couple of hundred decimals for a while, and still have it to 40) but when I learnt that the then record was 20,000 decimals, I lost interest.
Important omission – I had the mad idea when I was an undergraduate at university. I’m a bit more sensible now
I’m surprised and disappointed that no one has said it yet, so I will.
The cake is a lie, obey the Pi!
Glad to see some more 46.
Will we get to meet his half-brother in this arc, 32? Or his cousin-twice-removed, 44?
That would be pretty witty, but half of 46 is 23 not 32.
It’s all right, Pi’s half-brother, 32, is dyslexic . . .
3.14159265358979323846!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Yeah I memorized it!!!!