Happy Pi Day 3/14 - How's Your Memory?
Mar 14, 2023 13:51:36 #
Happy 𝞹 (Pi) Day today!
There was an old TV contest show (forgot it's name) where each person was given a task to accomplish to win $10,000. One such task was for the person to memorize the value of Pi to the 100th decimal digit, and he had a week to do it. A week later he came back to the show, and by golly he got 'em all right...he won the prize!
There was an old TV contest show (forgot it's name) where each person was given a task to accomplish to win $10,000. One such task was for the person to memorize the value of Pi to the 100th decimal digit, and he had a week to do it. A week later he came back to the show, and by golly he got 'em all right...he won the prize!
Mar 14, 2023 15:17:48 #
I only have memorized to 3.14159265.
(And that's only because 265 was a telephone exchange where I used to live.....
)
(And that's only because 265 was a telephone exchange where I used to live.....
)Mar 15, 2023 10:29:06 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Happy 𝞹 (Pi) Day today!
There was an old TV contest show (forgot it's name) where each person was given a task to accomplish to win $10,000. One such task was for the person to memorize the value of Pi to the 100th decimal digit, and he had a week to do it. A week later he came back to the show, and by golly he got 'em all right...he won the prize!
There was an old TV contest show (forgot it's name) where each person was given a task to accomplish to win $10,000. One such task was for the person to memorize the value of Pi to the 100th decimal digit, and he had a week to do it. A week later he came back to the show, and by golly he got 'em all right...he won the prize!
That seems like an irrational task.
Mark
Mar 15, 2023 11:58:03 #
Longshadow wrote:
I only have memorized to 3.14159265.
(And that's only because 265 was a telephone exchange where I used to live..... )
(And that's only because 265 was a telephone exchange where I used to live.....
)3.1415 is good enough for the calculations I do.
Mar 15, 2023 12:55:01 #
aphelps
Loc: Central Ohio
jerryc41 wrote:
3.1415 is good enough for the calculations I do.
Rounded to four places that would be 3.1416 , more accurate.
Mar 15, 2023 14:54:33 #
In a Star Trek episode, the ship's computer was inhabited by an alieb entity t=which took over control of the ship. Spock spoke a priority command to the computer to solve the value of Pi to the last digit. That drove the entity from the computer and it was vanquished.
Mar 15, 2023 15:20:37 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
. In a Star Trek episode, the ship's computer was inhabited by an alieb entity t=which took over control of the ship. Spock spoke a priority command to the computer to solve the value of Pi to the last digit. That drove the entity from the computer and it was vanquished.
Yea Spock!!
Mark
Mar 15, 2023 15:57:42 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
In a Star Trek episode, the ship's computer was inhabited by an alieb entity t=which took over control of the ship. Spock spoke a priority command to the computer to solve the value of Pi to the last digit. That drove the entity from the computer and it was vanquished.
Ah, Yes! I remember that computer overload. It was very much like the ending scene in the "War Games" movie, where the kid (Matthew Broderick) told the computer to keep playing tic-tac-tow until it won...another computer overload...and the nuclear launch was averted!
Mar 15, 2023 17:59:05 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
In a Star Trek episode, the ship's computer was inhabited by an alieb entity t=which took over control of the ship. Spock spoke a priority command to the computer to solve the value of Pi to the last digit. That drove the entity from the computer and it was vanquished.
Mar 15, 2023 21:00:04 #
In High School I got pi memorized to 30 places. Also e.
Long term memory has failed me now.
Long term memory has failed me now.
Mar 15, 2023 23:14:01 #
You can calculate the circumference of the known universe, to an accuracy of less than the width of an atom, with only 38 digits of pi.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
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