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To: cicero2k

Or, if you were a pre-Excel math nerd, you might memorize a good chunk of it:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510...


80 posted on 04/25/2019 5:56:23 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

My daughters, back in grade school memorized it for “Pi Day”. Different math classes. Whoever memorized the most numbers got a piece of pie.

The one did something like 160 significant figures. She said the next closest was like 30, and third place was 10. The other daughter did it to over 200.


87 posted on 04/25/2019 7:00:15 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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