You should have posted this a minute earlier - 1:59 in Greece!

Timing the posting of this article was not easy... don't start with me. :o)

...so can't you change the file to show it was posted at an arbitrary time?

As far as I know, I can't. Magnus has access to the database, so he could theoretically do it, but it's so much more fun to try to time it correctly the first time.

Which I'd have to say you did very well ... exactly 0:00 Zulu on March 14. Not too bad.

Hey, I didn't know you were allowed to post news! :)

I've never celebrated pi day before but I might this time, first post?

No... like 4th post ;-)

Pi day is fun. Last year, I wasn't too impressive. This year, about 130 sounds good :) (I WANT MORE!)

Yeah, last year was the first day I was aware of Pi day

Me too. Last year, I didn't say the digits I knew at 1:59, but I said them on the day. I think I had about 80-90 then. This year, I had ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR! (Yes, I know, you beat me, Jrock, and all you other people who had >144 digits) But at least I got the sound recording of it on the computer!

Post it somewhere and tell us where to get it.

Seriously? It's 8.32MB... pretty big for a sound recording. I used the CD playback format, so it took up a lot of space. My voice sounds really nasty in it because my nose is stuffy (dang allergies and cold virus)... I hate hearing my voice on tape. lol I was saying them really fast until somewhere around 100 digits when I had to stop to think. :) Probably the best thing to do would be to zip it and try to ftp it somewhere if I wanted to post it on the internet. With a 56k modem, transfers are really sloooooooow :)

make it into an mp3 file... winamp (in the 2.xx series) has plugins that let you write to a variety of formats from almost any input.

I don't think I have winamp :(

^Link Above^ It's free. Make sure to get the latest in the 2.xx series, and then look for an out_mp3 plugin or something similar... If you can't find it there (I haven't checked recently, they might have dropped 2.xx), let me know and I'll get it off of my backup CDs and e-mail it to you. It isn't very big.

Okay, I'll check it out :)

Ooh... I just shortened it to about 570KB by changing the playback format to telephone quality. It sounds really bad and you can't really make it out, but it takes up over 10 times less space (actually, that was a guess... so don't think I'm stupid or anything)

I'll re-upload my Javascript Pi game and stick it in the zip file or something. :)

Ohh... and to make matters worse for my voice... my throat was dry and I woke up about two hours earlier. LOL Next Pi Day, I'm going to see if I can get more than 144 :)

ya, I havent ever, Ive heard of it, but not a big fan of it...

You should convert ;-)

Pi day is SOOOOOO much fun! HAHA! Nobody else around here seemed to care that I memorized 12^2 digits of pi... that's a gross, right there, EXACTLY. Oh well :)

LOL...I just realized...you got 12^2 and I got 13^2...Am I seeing a pattern?

OMG, that's so weird! I wonder if someone has 11^2... or 14^2!

I found this one site (link of joyofpi) that had this "1000 club" for people who memorized >=1000 digits of pi. Suddenly, 144 didn't seem like much :) I wonder if some of them really didn't memorize 1000... that's really a lot.

1000?!?!
*Erases previous lifetime goal and records "1000 digits of Pi"*
geez....lol

Yeah, I found it on joyofpi.com, then I went to the links section, and in there, I found a link (I think it was under the memorizing section). Anyway, the page had a black background, frames, and on the left frame, it had stuff like "100 Club", "1000 Club"... you'd know it if you saw it, probably.

If you do get >=1000, it would be funny if you ended up with 1024 (32^2) and I got 961 (31^2). That's like last time how you got 13^2 and I had 12^2. lol :)

I really think they cheated, though. Well, maybe not all of them, but it shouldn't be THAT easy to memorize 1000 digits like that :) 144 took me over a year...

a year? 169 only took me about a month...

Well, I got about 80 in two months, then I only worked on it one day in a month, so the number of digits I knew deterierated slightly, but then around February, I started memorizing again for 3/14, and I still know 144 digits (and I hope to remember them until next pi day... leaves me with less work)