75 digits of pi
(Does this count as a podcast?)
When I was a junior geek of 14 or so, some friends and I spent some time filling dead time in a maths class by learning digits of pi. I got to 75. Twenty years later, it’s still hanging about in my brain, wasting valuable brain cells.
Thank goodness it’s knowledge that is useful, rather than some pointless weird-arse geek party trick.
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When I was in year 11 maths class, for the same reason, I memorised Pi to 25 decimal places (your 75 puts me to shame). After not thinking about it for 20 years, one day I remembered having memorised it and was able to recall it all correctly. Why is that, when nowadays I can’t even remember my best friends phone number??
I suppose it’d be okay if your friend’s phone number was (03) 1415 9265 …
Hey Dan,
Thats amazing! 75 digits of Pi !!
I mean, I can barely remember my DOB.
Um, you actually recalled 76 digits, not 75. Most I’ve ever learned is 400.
I’m in the process of doing it during dull pure maths.. I’m up to 40, i think it is..
I memorized pi to 75 digits in math class. I’m 12 years old.
One day I was so bored i found a cool thing about pi and prime numbers. Here it is:
The 19th through 23rd digits of pi are as follows: 46264
19 is a prime number.
The next 5 prime numbers are 23, 29, 31, 37, and 41.
Find the differences between each prime number:
23-19=4
29-23=6
31-29=2
37-31=6
41-37=4
46264 (see 19th through 23rd digits of pi).
By the way, anyone else a MENSAN? I got accepted last week.
I also like trigonometry. It is fun.
sine cosine tangent cotangent secant cosecant trigonemetric functions.
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Guess What?! I’m 10 and i know 75 digits of pi!!!!! This may be boring but here is 75 digits of pi!!
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781!!!!!!
Hate to break it to you, but that’s only 69 digits. (Or 68 places). Still a good effort though!