Memorizing Pi

[jacob0401]

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306
64709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612847564823378678
31652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925
90360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885
75272489122793818301194912...

Better start memorizing...your goal is now 500

 

[brxndxn]

damn.. I would've loved an assignment like that.. The competition in my class was always nuts. Usually I'm good at the obscure things.. I be I would've won that.


I believe that if you know the proper summation formula for pi, you won't even have to memorize at all.. and if you can essentially keep track of a 2 digit * 2 digit multiplication in your head, you can spout each next digit that way... At least that's what I heard.

 

[Dudd]

I'm going to venture a guess and say that whoever wins this contest is very close to their hand.

<- fills kitten killing joke quota for the day

 

[fatbaby]

all you have to do is figure out the pattern.

Everything is made up of circles. Which means we are all linked to that circle.

 

[etech]

trivia;

What two integers give a closer approximation for pi than 22/7?

This came out of the fortran punch card programming days when the computers did not have pi function built in.

 

[slydecix]

i love that movie!

 

[Chaotic42]

Memorize it 10 or 20 digits at a time. Get someone (not in your class, you don't want to help them!) to help you out. 222 shouldn't be too terribly hard if you work at it.

 

[DaWhim]

22/7

 

[beer]

PI IS EXACTLY 3!

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Why not go for 10,000?

 

[notfred]

? <- wondering if that shows up right in fusetalk and IE and whatever other stuff it's supposed to.

edit: nope.

&pi; <- that one works.

 

[deftron]

I forget my phone number sometimes..




Anyways, the trick is to make up a story or poem and assign the letter to the numbers in pi

 

[Smolek]

3.141592653 is all that I remember and unless something comes up that requires it, I doubt I'll be worrying about memorizing more digits.

 

[Ferocious]

22/7 is close enough for me.

 

[Ferocious]

Originally posted by: etech
trivia;

What two integers give a closer approximation for pi than 22/7?

This came out of the fortran punch card programming days when the computers did not have pi function built in.

355/113 ???

Actually this ratio was found centuries ago.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
22/7 is close enough for me.

I prefer 4 times the definite integral from 0 to 1 of sqrt(1-x^2).

 

[Ferocious]

Cube root of 31.

 

[EdipisReks]

3 is close enough for me. i failed math.

 

[TallBill]

>1 is all i need

 

[MeanMeosh]

3.141

i used to know more, but when i realized that people would much rather have as small a number of decimal places as possible, i decided 3.141 was enough, with error.

 

[Mday]

3.1415926

that's the most i ever used while typing into a calculator (4 fxn).

in most calculations, there is no need to memorize that many digits of pi.

 

[brtspears2]

Not like pre-calc is that hard anyways. I think your time would be better spent if you got familar with how to cheat using a TI-8x series calc later in life.

 

[etech]

Originally posted by: Ferocious

Originally posted by: etech
trivia;

What two integers give a closer approximation for pi than 22/7?

This came out of the fortran punch card programming days when the computers did not have pi function built in.

355/113 ???

Actually this ratio was found centuries ago.

You got it.

I was trying to say that was when I learned to use it instead of 22/7.

 

[Analog]

seems somewhat pointless to me.

 

[VBboy]

3.14159265358979323846264338327950

I swear I remember this. It impresses chicks.