Happy Pi Day myLot
By Methodless
@Methodless (882)
Canada
March 14, 2007 5:33pm CST
Happy Pi Day everybody
Today is 3/14, International Pi Day.
This day is of special significance to me because I had memorized 218 decimal places of pi and still know around 170.
How many digits of pi do you know?
3 responses
@winewhisky (345)
•
14 Mar 07
I don't know any digits of pi. But you remind me of an old friend of mine. He's now a maths teacher, but when we were at school together the teacher would say:
"why is **** late?"
Class: "Sir, he's tripped over a quadratic equation on the stairs!"
I think it's great to have a pleasure in mathematics. But most of the population just don't. :)
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@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
15 Mar 07
It seems that everyone has there own tips for memorizing Pi. I find it easiest to divide Pi into 50 numbers in a section. This is how I am able to do it:
3 . 14159265358979323 - I still remember this much from age 16.
8 - I just ate.
46264 - COOL mirror image number.
33 - Rhyms with tree-tree? (This speeellin of 'rhym' doesn't look right be the spelling checker okayed it.)
832 - This is a popular dialing prefix in my area.
795 - My dad used to have a post office box with this number.
0288 - I like numbers that start with zero.
4 - How many digits are in the following year?
1971 - I didn't like the 70's. (In general that is.)
69 - Two years earlier. (First year of CV joints on Volkswagen Beetles.)
3993 - A cool mirror image number.
7510 - Last number in this section
5820 - the first two digit are the 7 & 5 of the last section reversed + 1.
974 - A Futuristic Porsche style?
944 - A Present day Porsche style!!
5923 - Kind of related to the number before the Porsches.
0781 - First number I like in this section.
640 - Popular computer graphic screen width.
628 - What is the 40 above in hex? (28!)
620 - What is the 40 above divided by 2? (20!)
8998 - Cool mirror image number.
628 - This is the middle 600 number above repeated.
0348 - Other number I like in this section.
2 - How many digits follow?
53 - How many weeks in a year + 1 ?
421 - Three digit descending (divide by 2) number.
1 - "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do!" (Three Dog Night)
706 - Almost a Boeing 707 airplane !!
79 - Popular computer terminal column width - 1.
This is old old old! Don't even remember where it came from. I am not that brilliant.
@Methodless (882)
• Canada
15 Mar 07
LOL I just used to memorize 5 digits at a time.
It got messed up when I got to 130 and realized I missed a digit (somewhere around the 95th)
The further I got, the more I'd deviate from the 5, doing anywhere between 4 and 8.
@oslovibes (190)
• Greece
14 Mar 07
happy pi day to you too.
i could alway memorize only a few digits but have a movie suggestion for pi fans.
There is an intersting movie called pi directed bu darren aronofski made in 1998 and it deals with mahematics adapted in somehow weird plot.Very interesting electronica soundtrack also.
@Methodless (882)
• Canada
15 Mar 07
I saw the movie, it was good (I wouldn't say great, but certainly worth the time) however, it had nothing to do with pi.
Except that it involved a critical number, I guess maybe it was being compared to pi in terms of power.



