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

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Up In Maine where I live a high school had a contest to who could recite the most digits of PI and some kid recited over 800 digits of PI! He won a TI calc for it. He blew away the competition by over 300 Digits! Id remember that many for a free calc!
Nate

That depends on what kind of TI calc it is.

I wish I could determine Pi,
Eureka cried the great inventor,
Christmas pudding, Christmas pie,
Is the problem's very centre.

Or then there's the Raven poem (which I know *g*) which gives 740 digits...

This poem says pi = 3.141592 65358 9793 23846

The length of each word represents a digit. What about zero? I know there's a zero in pi somewhere. How do you have a zero-length word?

why are there people who waste their time memorizing pi?

yeah, why do u have to memorize pi when u have the little symbol for it and that is worth an infinite amount of decimal places. so all you have to do is memorize the symbol then ull know pi to the infinith decimal place!!! :::)))))

Why do people memorize pi? It's a goal, that's all.
Why do you try for a high score in tetris or beat a computer in chess? Why do you try for a bullseye in archery or a 300 in bowling? Most things in life
have no reason, they're just things to keep you
from going insane from boredom
(Why am I posting this message?)

-meek (Why do I call myself that?)

time for a little psycholagy

nothing, repeat NOTHING, is done without reason. Even if the reason is as sad as "I felt like it". The human brain works only in logical patterns unless you have a mental instability or are extremely tired (this actually causes your brain to stop functioning properly!).

That is all.

Define 'properly'

I can recite the first 33 digits from memory: 3.141 592 653 589 793 238 462 643 383 279 502 884 197. I'm hoping to get to 100 over spring break. According to the '97 guiness book, the world record is 42 195 decimal places. Btw, <A HREF= "ftp://gryphon.ccs.brandeis.edu/pub/pi" >Click Here</A> to download the first TEN MILLION digits of pi. 10 MB download. (DUH!)

Ack, sorry about the tags, this is the first comment I've posted. Click the link associated with this message for the download.

I know 3.14159265453, I feel stupid now :(

It's (unrounded) 3.14159265358 :-)

--BlueCalx

Thank you Nick, now I feel even more stupid.

Don't worry. I always remember pi as being equal to 3. If I need more precision I simply use my calculator.

Two things.. first of all
i remember the thing that went

sine cosine cosine sine 3.1-4-1-5-9

then it pretty intresting

try this on your calc (if dont already know the answer
0 if you wanyt but i know its true e^(pi*i)=-1 .. wow.. so many symbols to just equal -1...

The second thing gives me a domain error.

--meek

You need to be in radians.

I really hate memorizing the pi because it goes on forever and ever and never stops. I just like remembering 3.14 because that is just what most things use.

Ignorant people, pi in fact does repeat at the 9029387532049860294752047523096720397523 ^358760946012522947620976th digit

That statement is a lot of BS, because:

(1) There is no possible way you could know that, and
(2) pi does not repeat. (see my explanation earlier on this page)

it was a joke