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

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3.1415926535897932384626
That 22 after the decimal, I just added the last 8 since monday because of pi day yesterday(I knew the others only after looking at my calculator pi every so often)
Anyway I've been so bored in math that I have been cutting out a picture of the cover of Sqt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band to tape over the TI-89 plastic screen outline thingie, it looks pretty cool with the middle of the picture over the screen.

Some guy was able to remember 1001 digits for some contest.

hey, why isn't there a place for NO digits of pi, or the whole thing :) not like anyone on a calculator site won't know at least 3.14...

no one could memorize the whole thing cause there isn't a whole thing does the word infinity mean anything to you?

If it were there, that category would get the highest vote.

I know 35,759 numbers of pi. I'd like to see anybody beat THAT!!!
If you'd like to know what they are, send me an e-mail.

Yeah, i know every single digit of pi. I swear. Theres 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0
Hey, when did i say i knew em in order...

Just some information:
I'm pretty sure the world record is in the 40,000's. Yes, that's fourty thousand.
It only takes 30 digits to calculate the circumference of the known universe from it's radius, to an accuracy greater than the width of a hydrogren atom.
There's an algorithm that can figure out arbitrary digits of pi, that is, it can find the one billionth digit without having to find the ones before. The catch is that it only works in base 16. I think there's one for base 2 also.

I only have 31 memorized. The most I've seen someone do in real life is 45.

From The Guinness Book of Records, 1995 edition (page 179):
"The most decimal places to which pi has been calculated is 2,260,321,336"

yes that is 2 billion, 260 million, 321 thousand, 336 digits of pi

What I don't know is why doesn't the 1999 guinness book of records have that in it (no math records)
I also like the most inaccurate approxitmation of pi, also in the 1995 book of records:
"pi = 4"

I think the people who did the 2 billion digits had gotten to 5 billion already, and are working on 10 :)
If I remeber correctly, it's two brothers living in some apartment somewhere and they designed and built their own original supercomputers just for the purpose of calculating pi. Most people think they're a little bit crazy. I think they're Japanese, but don't hold me to that, I read about them a while ago.

Japanese people are crazy doofus!!

I will this once respectfully put aside the warnings on staying on topic. Because the above comment was not. I strongly object to this infantile and abusive language turned on a unique culture. Don't diss it and I won't diss you.

<Ditzy Teenage Girl Voice>
You are SOOOO mid-90's!
</Ditzy Teenage Girl Voice>

Well, I think that pi equals 17.
HA!!! Put me in the Book of Records, baby!!!!!!
JK, I'm not an idiot...

I recall 12 due to one phrase in Serbian, Croatian or Bosnian language:

"Jos i krug u skoli upoznajes da naucis obime ili duzine kruznica"

with meaning
"Even a circle in school you meet to learn perimeters or round lenghts"

Length of every word in the phrase represent one digit.
(The trick is usefull until first zero. How to say zero-length word?)

I only get through about the first 10 comments every time and then get sick of reading any more. I memorized the pi chart with 75 decimal places in class for an extra credit point. I don't think anyone has calculated pi to a trillion decimal places. That would be pointless for any scientific use. Who wants to count up all the digits to make sure the computer didn't make a mistake?

Yah, one trillion. If in seconds would take about 31,689 years.

one of my classmates memorized the entire periodic table
teachers tend to memorized alot of constants
our mathteacher could calculate ln-logaritms in his head
but if work as a teacher for 35 years thats whats happens

22/7 = 3.142857...142857...
355/113 = 3.14159290354...
1146408/364913 = 3.14159265359...14159265359...

Don't forget 333/106 = 3.141509434...

Does anyone else remember the Simpsons, when Homer and Marge tell the story of how Lisa got her sax? Well, in that one, at the "higher learning" preschool, there are two little girls doing a patty-cake like game, only it's geared towards pi. They end up listing 20 or so numbers.

No...wait. I barely remember that episode.
But I do remember the Simpsons episode where Marge was on trial and Apu quoted he knew pi to around 30,000 places and said the last digit is 1 (Homer then misunderstood pi as pie)

P.S. It is the one where Marge robbed the Quick-E-Mart

Yeah, I remember that one. If you listen closely they actually make a mistake towards the end.