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  • K Ken Mazaika

    How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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    Chris Maunder
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    15 (when I was 13 - how sad is that) I think we've been over this before and there's some guys here who are truly lost causes ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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    • K Ken Mazaika

      How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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      peterchen
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      8 (after the decimal point)


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      • K Ken Mazaika

        How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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        David Wulff
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        Mmmmm, pieeee...


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        Help me...

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        • K Ken Mazaika

          How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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          Chris Richardson
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          This many: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592308 Just kidding, from memory I will usually use only 3.14159265. How many do you have memorized? Chris Richardson
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          • K Ken Mazaika

            How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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            John Fisher
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            Well, if you spell it with the Hebrew character, there's only one 'digit'. Using the English spelling of "pi" gives us two 'digits'. So, I've memorized all of them! :) John

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            • K Ken Mazaika

              How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              3.14159265358 Which is technically wrong, because rounded it should be 3.14159265359 Oh well. I don't need Pi with that resolution anymore. And would I ever, I'd probably download one of those text files available on some math websites with a gazillion digits and use that. :) 3.14 works for most practical purposes in the home, garden, private workshop etc. :) -- You can all bite my shiny metal ass!

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                15 (when I was 13 - how sad is that) I think we've been over this before and there's some guys here who are truly lost causes ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                Roger Wright
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                Chris Maunder wrote: 15 (when I was 13 - how sad is that) I'm impressed! I never bothered to memorize more than the first 4 digits - it's very rare to need more in engineering. We mostly write stuff out as multiples of π and pray the symbols will cancel out. I do recall having to memorizes pages and pages of logarithms in high school, but fortunately college and the slide rule put an end to that folly.

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                • K Ken Mazaika

                  How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                  Joaquin M Lopez Munoz
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                  There's a nice mnemotechnical technique for recalling a lot of digits of pi: How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. The number of letters in each word yield up to 14 digits (not counting the integer part). Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

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                  • C Chris Richardson

                    This many: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592308 Just kidding, from memory I will usually use only 3.14159265. How many do you have memorized? Chris Richardson
                    Terrain Software

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                    Ken Mazaika
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                    How do you think they figured the numerical value of pi out to that many decimal places. I remember in school we did an experiment and got pi equal to 3.

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                    • K Ken Mazaika

                      How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                      Michael Mac
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                      Hmmm... I remember 3.141592653589 :D


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                      • K Ken Mazaika

                        How do you think they figured the numerical value of pi out to that many decimal places. I remember in school we did an experiment and got pi equal to 3.

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                        Chris Richardson
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                        The number I posted isn't really that big in digits. Take a look here for the first 10,000 digits: http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.htm[^] Here's some references on calculating PI: http://eveander.com/pi/monte-carlo-circle[^] http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=360&lngWId=3[^] http://www.chinapage.com/math/s9/pi.html[^] Chris Richardson
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                        • K Ken Mazaika

                          How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                          Tomas Petricek
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                          I remember first 28 decimal digits :cool: (.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 832) <EDIT> .. maybe I was without computer for to long time .. </EDIT> i'm only pointer to myself

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                          • K Ken Mazaika

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                            Jeremy Falcon
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                            I've always used 3.1415926 and so far nothing has blown up. :) Jeremy Falcon

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                            • K Ken Mazaika

                              How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                              Jon Sagara
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                              3.14159 That's all I never needed. If the prof wanted more, he gave it to us. Plus, I always had my trusty HP 48-GX handy. :)

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                              • K Ken Mazaika

                                How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                                Thomas Freudenberg
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                                Somewhat OT: At university, once my professor mentioned his rule of thumb:

                                pi2 ≈ 32 ≈ 10

                                :wtf::wtf::wtf: Regards Thomas


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                                • K Ken Mazaika

                                  How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                                  Rob Manderson
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                                  The first 5 to the right of the decimal point. Why? It's the unlock code for my DVD player to set the region code :) Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net

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                                    8 (after the decimal point)


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                                    peterchen wrote: 8 (after the decimal point) ditto. - Nitron


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                                    • K Ken Mazaika

                                      How many digits of pi do you have memorized?

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                                      ColinDavies
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                                      kmaz wrote: How many digits of pi do you have memorized? I can't count that high. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies

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                                        Somewhat OT: At university, once my professor mentioned his rule of thumb:

                                        pi2 ≈ 32 ≈ 10

                                        :wtf::wtf::wtf: Regards Thomas


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                                        Thomas Freudenberg wrote: pi2 ≈ 32 ≈ 10 Ouch !! :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf: Regardz Colin J Davies

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                                          Thomas Freudenberg wrote: pi2 ≈ 32 ≈ 10 Ouch !! :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf: Regardz Colin J Davies

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                                          Colin Davies wrote: pi2 ≈ 32 ≈ 10 In your quote the equation looks even more weird... ;-) Regards Thomas


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