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I'll start out on our topic. Here's the wikipedia page on pi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
And here are the first million digits of pi: https://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/Pi10-6.html
Ooh, and check out this excerpt:
Even long before computers have calculated pi, memorizing a record number of digits became an obsession for some people. In 2006, Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, claimed to have recited 100,000 decimal places. This, however, has yet to be verified by Guinness World Records. The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of pi is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of pi without an error.
There are many ways to memorize, including the use of "piems", which are poems that represent in a way such that the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit. Here is an example of a piem: How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature (or: of course), after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. Notice how the first word has 3 letters, the second word has 1, the third has 4, the fourth has 1, the fifth has 5, and so on. The Cadaeic Cadenza contains the first 3834 digits of pi in this manner. Piems are related to the entire field of humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of pi, known as piphilology. See Pi mnemonics for examples. In other languages there are similar methods of memorization. However, this method proves inefficient for large memorizations of pi. Other methods include remembering patterns in the numbers.
Oh, and it seems people are getting better memory, or just finding better methods! Look:
And pi isn't just a fun number, it has a purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
And here are the first million digits of pi: https://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/Pi10-6.html
Ooh, and check out this excerpt:
Even long before computers have calculated pi, memorizing a record number of digits became an obsession for some people. In 2006, Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, claimed to have recited 100,000 decimal places. This, however, has yet to be verified by Guinness World Records. The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of pi is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of pi without an error.
There are many ways to memorize, including the use of "piems", which are poems that represent in a way such that the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit. Here is an example of a piem: How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature (or: of course), after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. Notice how the first word has 3 letters, the second word has 1, the third has 4, the fourth has 1, the fifth has 5, and so on. The Cadaeic Cadenza contains the first 3834 digits of pi in this manner. Piems are related to the entire field of humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of pi, known as piphilology. See Pi mnemonics for examples. In other languages there are similar methods of memorization. However, this method proves inefficient for large memorizations of pi. Other methods include remembering patterns in the numbers.
Oh, and it seems people are getting better memory, or just finding better methods! Look:
And pi isn't just a fun number, it has a purpose.
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