Pi!!!!!!!!

learnin to learn · 10-17-2006

Ok! who is up for a healthy competition?!?!?!?! Who can memorize the most digits of pi? There is no way to prevent anyone from cheating so we will have to go on you word of honor!
here is a start!

3.1415926535897932

TheBigDog · 10-17-2006

10,000 digits. From JQ.

http://hypography.com/forums/strange...15-3-33-a.html

Bill

Southtown · 10-17-2006

O.o

I highly doubt that he memorized all that.

Turtle · 10-22-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbc

A man from Kent has set a new British and European record by reciting the mathematical expression pi to more than 22,000 decimal places.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3513230.stm

Jay-qu · 10-23-2006

no way

that is insane!

Tormod · 10-23-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC

He performed the feat on Sunday before an audience at Oxford University's Museum of the History of Science, sitting in front of a blackboard once used by Albert Einstein.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC

his record-breaking feat [...] took nearly six hours

Gee, I can imagine other ways to spend an evening.

Jay-qu · 10-23-2006

its cool that they put him infront of that black board that was used by Einstein, but its not like it was something that required him to intelligence like that of Einstein, just a good memory! (unless he is really good at calculating infinite power series in his head!)

Freethinker · 10-23-2006

I can memorize all the digits in pi

3.0

10 cubits across, 30 cubits around 1 Kings 7:23

30/10=3.0

Can't agrue with biblical facts now can we?

TheBigDog · 10-23-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freethinker

I can memorize all the digits in pi

3.0

10 cubits across, 30 cubits around 1 Kings 7:23

30/10=3.0

Can't agrue with biblical facts now can we?

You seem to be forgetting the other dimentions of the cubit. A cubit is 1 x 0.707963268

So when you take ten cubits and arrange them in a circle the inside diameter is 30, while the outside diameter is 31.41592654. A very close approximation of Pi.

Of course this only works for a circle of ten.

Bill

Turtle · 10-23-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

its cool that they put him infront of that black board that was used by Einstein, but its not like it was something that required him to intelligence like that of Einstein, just a good memory! (unless he is really good at calculating infinite power series in his head!)

Daniel Tammet, the man in the article, is autistic and not epileptic as the article implies. The Learning Channel has an hour program on him which includes tape of him reciting the digits of pi as well as information on autism in general.
http://science.discovery.com/converg.../brainman.html
Daniel is of particular interest to those studying the workings of the brain because unlike most autistic savants, he is capable of describing his experience. He in fact "sees" individual numbers up to several thousand as discrete forms with shape, color, and movement. He presents a unique opportunity in coming to understand just exactly what intelligence comprises and how the structure of the brain influences thought and perception.

PS I have read speculation that Einstein was an autistic savant as well.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3676

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