Survey posted 2000-03-15 16:54 by Andy.

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I feel like a retard because I only know 3.14. I guess that sort of explains why I have yet to download a math program from this site, yet have been downloading games for the past 3 years.

You're not a retard because face it, no one NEEDS to remember more than 3.14 anyways. After all, that is part of the reason we buy calculators...

Another reason one doesn't need to memorize many digits of pi is that often its best just to leave it as pi, like with radians, or multiply at the end of the equation.

the REAL reason we buy calculators is to play games
everbody knows that =]
j/k

<sarcasm>
not me. I buy calculators for education only
</sarcasm>
While I use to play games on my calculator I still bought it for mostly schooling pourposes. I can't download programs/games now because my calculator is linking impared.

the number one reason for me to get an 83 was games in fact

no, we need 39 digits

with 39 digits you can calculate the circumfrence of the known universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom.

I think thats close enough.

I don't think its close enough though!

I am very good at math and I only can remember up to 3.14159, so don't feel bad. I remember e up to 2.718281828.

e is really easy to remember that far.
[Not from memory]
e=2.7182818284590452 35360287471352662497 75724709369995957496 69676277 24076630353547594571 38217852516642742746 63919320030599218174 13596629 04357290033429526059 56307381323286279434 90763233829880753195 25101901 15738341879307021540 89149934884167509244 76146066808226480016 84774118 53742345442437107539 07774499206955170276 18386062613313845830 00752044 93382656029760673711 32007093287091274437 47047230696977209310 14169283 68190255151086574637 72111252389784425056 95369677078544996996 79468644 54905987931636889230 09879312773617821542 49992295763514822082 69895193 66803318252886939849 64651058209392398294 88793320362509443117 30123819 70684161403970198376 79320683282376464804 29531180232878250981 94558153 01756717361332069811 25099618188159304169 03515988885193458072 73866738 58942287922849989208 68058257492796104841 98444363463244968487 56023362 48270419786232090021 60990235304369941849 14631409343173814364 05462531...

source:
http:// antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /htmltest/gifcity/e.1mil

You got your cause and effect mixed up.

My brother memorized Pi to the 200th decimal place. It started as a bet in math class, he was supposed to memorize it to the 75th place, but he really surprised the teacher by getting it to the 100th place. He made another bet that he could get it to 200th place by the next day, and he did. He can even recite it backwards from 200. Its pretty wierd. All I know is that 3.14159 part.

I don't know about anybody else, but all this pi talk is making me hungry.

I could go for pi/2 right about now.
Mmmmm...half a pi :P~

3.14159265358979323846264
is what i can get from memory

pi/2 ~ 1.57079632679........

:)

how about a P sub pi raised to the Tth ( it looks much better on paper with subscirpts and superscripts

(it is read as: "P sub pi raised to the teeth")

:)

Yumm.

Why wasn't there an option of "I don't know any of it, but i know where the PI key is on my calculator"? We are a calculator oriented site are we not? Hehehehehe...oh well, i got 3.14

We expect people to use the pi key on their calculator SO much that they would inadvertently commit it to memory.
It would be even more ironic if they memorized "3.1415927" :)

--BlueCalx

My friend memorized the TI-83's 3.141592654 (it should be a 3 at the end, the 83 rounds up because the next digit is a 5)

I also memorized that 4 once. But now I know that pi ~= 3.14159265_3_5898

I think that there are at least three hundred people in my school of fifteen hundred that would put 3.