The Pi Contest

[Immortal Wombat]

Well 39 places would allow you to calculate universe-size calculations to the width of a hydrogen atom. Its about 43 to get it down to hydrogen nucleus width, and after that it becomes somewhat pointless.

Oh, and I can do 72 off the top of my head.

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Well 39 places would allow you to calculate universe-size calculations to the width of a hydrogen atom. Its about 43 to get it down to hydrogen nucleus width, and after that it becomes somewhat pointless.

Oh, and I can do 72 off the top of my head.

Oh yeah?? I bet you can't manage those calculations in your head I dare you!!
Why do you remember it to up to 72? Were you bored out of your head or something...
I remember I pressed with my ti85
0
Ans+1=1
=2
=3
....
up to =100 000+
I was really bored then...

[Immortal Wombat]

*in theory you could

I was competing with one of my friends. He got to 120 places when I was on 100, but after some time he can only remember about 40 now, and I'm stuck with the curse of 72

[Rogan Josh]

I have done calculations where we needed it to about 10 or 12 (I have forgotten exactly how much) for some precision particle physics stuff, but that is as far as I have gone.

[tinyp3nis]

*in theory you could

Maybe the Rainman could. Well actually Hoffmans character wasn't the rainman, well you know, the movie...

[Guest]

The most calculated by hand ever was around 700 decimal and the last few hundreds were wrong
Of course a few millions decimals is routine calculation on a home computer..
In physical examples, you seldom need more than a few decimals as was pointed out.
In math, its used as a sum of many series, and many other things, so its decimal writing is useless.

[RGBVideo]

I've read about a guy (Source : Reader's Digest in the mid-90's) who can say 40 000 digits from the top of his head. A japanese, world-record holder.

[Japher]

I've read about a guy (Source : Reader's Digest in the mid-90's) who can say 40 000 digits from the top of his head. A japanese, world-record holder.

I can say more than 40,000 digits from the top of my head... what does this have to do with pi?

My best is: 3


This thread is lame.

[BustaMike]

I like pie!

[Immortal Wombat]

I think Sir Penguin should win. Great quote from a great book, masterfully presented.

[chairmanmeow]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
*in theory you could

I was competing with one of my friends. He got to 120 places when I was on 100, but after some time he can only remember about 40 now, and I'm stuck with the curse of 72

That's how I memorized pi. Two summers ago, I went to a summer program at the local college and there was someone there who had memorized 30 decimal places of pi. I knew 15 places, so I challenged him to a competition: whoever could memorize more decimal places by the end of the summer would win. He got to 60, I got to 100 by the end of the summer. I was bored in the fall, so I kept going, and eventually got to 200, but I forgot some of them, so I can recite about 160 now.

[gunkulator]

mmmmm pie

[Ignorance]

Mmm... Pi