Pi
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This is silly, but the digits I know come from a Simpsons episode, where Lisa visits a school for "gifted children". Two girls are playing paddy-cake but sing this: Cross my heart and hope to die These are the numbers that make up pi. 3 point 1415926535897 [fade out...] The bad part is that I can't recite or type the numbers unless I do it at the same speed as the girls were singing it. ;) --Mike-- Latest blog entry: *drool* (Alyson) [May 10] Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me
You'd love The Elements[^], by Tom Lehrer (to a tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan). :-D
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How many digits of pi do you have memorized?
I can remember 22 (Yay for me!) I learned that many from hearing my wife repeat it so many times, and reading over a sheet of Pi while she learned it. She managed to memorise 800 (Yes, Eight Hundred) decimal places. and she recited them in a local University competition, scoring herself an Apple Pie and a book :) My wife is way cool :rose: Phil
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OH! Beat you ALL!!! 240! Before this year, it was 54, but then I met someone who knew around 90, so I just had to beat her... chaos ensued, ending with my victory at 240. All your base are belonging to US! w00t! OK, I'll calm down now...
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
My wife beats you so bad... :-D See my post below....
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OH! Beat you ALL!!! 240! Before this year, it was 54, but then I met someone who knew around 90, so I just had to beat her... chaos ensued, ending with my victory at 240. All your base are belonging to US! w00t! OK, I'll calm down now...
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
Domenic [Geekn] wrote: 240! Isn't about time you started hanging around malt shops with girls, Domenic?:-D You're making me feel old... well, older, maybe.:-O
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Domenic [Geekn] wrote: 240! Isn't about time you started hanging around malt shops with girls, Domenic?:-D You're making me feel old... well, older, maybe.:-O
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee..."Roger Wright wrote: Isn't about time you started hanging around malt shops with girls, Domenic? :-O
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
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But why? For me, it's the number of significant digits on the first pocket calculator I had. (I had to subtract 3.14 to see the remaining digits - clever me!!)
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I can remember 22 (Yay for me!) I learned that many from hearing my wife repeat it so many times, and reading over a sheet of Pi while she learned it. She managed to memorise 800 (Yes, Eight Hundred) decimal places. and she recited them in a local University competition, scoring herself an Apple Pie and a book :) My wife is way cool :rose: Phil
pmartin wrote: My wife is way cool I'll say! :cool:
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
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I think it's because it's like a long distance US telephone number: 1-415-9265 - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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I can remember 22 (Yay for me!) I learned that many from hearing my wife repeat it so many times, and reading over a sheet of Pi while she learned it. She managed to memorise 800 (Yes, Eight Hundred) decimal places. and she recited them in a local University competition, scoring herself an Apple Pie and a book :) My wife is way cool :rose: Phil
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OH! Beat you ALL!!! 240! Before this year, it was 54, but then I met someone who knew around 90, so I just had to beat her... chaos ensued, ending with my victory at 240. All your base are belonging to US! w00t! OK, I'll calm down now...
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
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:omg: You were born in '88!!! (must have been nice to get a playstation or SNES for your 9th birthday ;P ) - Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
Hehehe, yup, that I was! But in regards to the game consoles, no chance there :(. My parents said they would rot my brain or something :confused:. So instead I just play computer games! But yes, there are some perks—not in the least among them having my first computer be a Windows 95 machine and my first programming environment be Visual C++ 6.0. :cool:
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
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Domenic [Geekn] wrote: 240! Isn't about time you started hanging around malt shops with girls, Domenic?:-D You're making me feel old... well, older, maybe.:-O
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee..."As a follow up, I think someone who has an "XSLT and XPath Quick Reference" guide on his wall, as well as a large poster showing all the units for the various factions of Galactic Battlegrounds—as opposed to the typical teenage swimsuit calendar, band poster, etc—doesn't quite fit that notion of reality :-D.
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
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I can remember 22 (Yay for me!) I learned that many from hearing my wife repeat it so many times, and reading over a sheet of Pi while she learned it. She managed to memorise 800 (Yes, Eight Hundred) decimal places. and she recited them in a local University competition, scoring herself an Apple Pie and a book :) My wife is way cool :rose: Phil
scoring herself an Apple Pie and a book I would rather go and buy an apple pie and a book rather than memorize 800 decimal places of pi :-D Thomas My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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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
I had to fire up notepad to figure it out, but I know 20, and surprisingly haven't thought about it _at all_ in 15 years. Weird. David
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I had to fire up notepad to figure it out, but I know 20, and surprisingly haven't thought about it _at all_ in 15 years. Weird. David
Nerd! Nerd! :D (OK - so now I'm feeling inferior - I admit it ;)) cheers, Chris Maunder
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Nerd! Nerd! :D (OK - so now I'm feeling inferior - I admit it ;)) cheers, Chris Maunder
Ok, so I've always wondered, when you guys are both in the office and your posting to eachother on CodeProject, are you sitting right next to eachother (or in the same room)? That's the ultimate geek humor ritual, sending the guy sitting right next to you a smartarse email. ;P Chris Richardson
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How many digits of pi do you have memorized?
I memorised the first 100 digits a couple of years ago. Cheers, Tom Archer, Inside C# Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
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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.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee..."Roger Wright wrote: We mostly write stuff out as multiples of π and pray the symbols will cancel out. :laugh: Don't tell me what you have worked on in the past.... ;P -Nick Parker
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Ok, so I've always wondered, when you guys are both in the office and your posting to eachother on CodeProject, are you sitting right next to eachother (or in the same room)? That's the ultimate geek humor ritual, sending the guy sitting right next to you a smartarse email. ;P Chris Richardson
Terrain SoftwareHeaven forbid! We're at least 20 feet away from each other when we post wise crack comments to each other. Less the 20' and we use IM. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hehehe, yup, that I was! But in regards to the game consoles, no chance there :(. My parents said they would rot my brain or something :confused:. So instead I just play computer games! But yes, there are some perks—not in the least among them having my first computer be a Windows 95 machine and my first programming environment be Visual C++ 6.0. :cool:
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] “I was born human. But this was an accident of fate—a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change…”
Domenic [Geekn] wrote: But yes, there are some perks—not in the least among them having my first computer be a Windows 95 machine I'm sorry, not exactly sure that is a perk. :~ Domenic [Geekn] wrote: and my first programming environment be Visual C++ 6.0. Ok, your ok now. :) -Nick Parker