need to know, I guess some people may want to break a record but....................http://www.yahoo.com/s/405255
2006-10-04 03:54:16 · 11 answers · asked by evillyn 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Just for fun. I did the first 36 digits when I was in high school. When I figured that that was enough to compute the circumference of the solar system to within a fraction of an inch, I quit.
2006-10-04 03:59:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no way, i think of that's extremely cool which you memorized that many, I desire i could desire to. Its completely universal to have a significant memory, we are all distinctive, and you in easy terms handed off to be reliable at memorizing issues
2016-12-12 20:23:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe it is just what us math nerds do. In graduate school, my friends made up a game of who could memorize the most digits of pi. We never got THAT far, but it was fun (to us!)
2006-10-04 04:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by CD & EC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about everyone else, but I did it for the heck of it.
I won a pi day competition by reciting 400 digits of pi from memory:-)
2006-10-04 04:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by Math_Guru 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you can spare the brain space, I don't see anything wrong with it. Pi is a very useful number. Most calculators have a pi button that gives it to 8 places, but sometimes that's not enough. Sometimes, to compute circle dimensions from measurements, a higher accuracy in needed.
2006-10-04 04:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that is amazing. Just to think it took a whole day to say 100,000 digits.
2006-10-04 05:20:57 · answer #6 · answered by Mariko 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No thanks to a math teacher who wanted VERY precise approximations, I had to memorize pi as equal to 3.14159.
2006-10-04 04:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes , me too.
Going to this sort of trouble to memorize random numbers seems even weirder
http://www.memorise.org/lesson3.htm
but it takes all types.
Best of Luck - Mike
2006-10-04 04:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
GOD!! I actually have never heard of this kind of contests before... I believe its a waste of time... no practical aplication
2006-10-04 05:34:29 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Rodri 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
mental exercise i suppose like weight lifting contests
2006-10-04 04:03:23 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋