Saturday, August 29, 2009

All right, only 2,576,980,369,987 digits more to memorize ...

I have been able to rattle off "3.141592653589" for decades now. I see that's become even less impressive, proportionally, thanks to Don McArthur.

Even more impressive than 2.5 trillion digits is that it only took about three days to calculate them, including a check.

Random semi-related coolness: the digits past the decimal point that I have memorized form a prime number!

Unbearably OCD disclaimer: I am aware that what I have memorized represents a truncated version of pi, not a properly rounded one. Just to save you from typing out that chastisement.

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