> Wow, there’s quite an art and a science involved in all of that [memorizing pi] <
I suspect that maybe your brain has to be wired a little differently.
Many years ago I taught a remedial math course. One of my students could barely add a column of numbers together. That’s why he was in the course.
But he could do square roots in his head. And I don’t mean just the easy ones. Ask him what the square root of 576 was, he’d think for a second then tell say 24.
So you never know.
🤔
Did he join the Navy? Seems like a no-brainer because he was always squared away!
I take care of my mentally challenged ex-sister-in-law. She cannot add simple numbers, but she is a date savant. She never forgets a person’s birthday and can tell you what day of the week a future date will be in just a few seconds. It’s so weird!
Today is my son’s 37th birthday. He is coincidentally a math whiz...