Pi Training Starts Today!

[poog]

Yep! I'm going to try and memorize 350 digits of pi for pi day. (March 14) I just hope i'm going to be able to accomplish this sucka. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 79821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 28481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381 96442881097566593344612847564823378678316527120190 91456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412 73724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364 These are the 350 digits of pi I'll try memorizing...

[capoopy]

wow... I wish you the best of luck Certainly not something I would do Or maybe I would just to freak out my friends lol

[Ynot]

Did someone say "Pie"?

[poog]

Did someone say "Pie"?

[Bearsy]

Spoiler for Lyrics: When ink and pen in hands of men Inscribe your form, bipedal "P" They draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability No eyes could ever soak in all the places you anoint And yet to see you all at once we only need the point Flirting with infinity, your geometric progeny That fit inside you oh so tight With triangles that feel so right 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459 Your ever-constant homily says flaw is discipline The patron saint of imperfection frees us from our sin And if our transcendental lift shall find a final floor Then Man will know the death of God where wonder was before Yeah, I know this Pi shit backwards and forwards Check it out I did three chicks then I pointed at the door A girl entered in so that made it four I snapped one time in came another five Add 'em all up and that makes nine The average age 26.5 Now that's what I call gettin' some pi Five of the chicks wore 6-inch heels Two of the nine squealed like seals 514 was the area code Quebec, Canada my winter abode And my 1.3 million dollar chalet Pi backwards, pi forwards, all night and all day 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640 62862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470 93844609550582231725359 40812848111745028410270193852110556

[poog]

Hokay, I've come up with a system. I'm memorizing ten digits a day added onto what I already know... this is what I've got so far from my memory, 3.141592653

[capoopy]

There are these little rhyme things that help you remember pi, called piems, that the length of each word corresponds to the digits of pi. Look em up! Im sure itll help

[poog]

piems, huh? those sound interesting might be a bit of a problem for 350 digits okay, from memory... 3.141592653589793238462643383289502884197 shoot, missed one

[Marvo]

http://pi.ytmnd.com/

[NightLife]

Did someone say "Pie"? Those kids all fucking suck... I hate them....

[Ynot]

Those kids all fucking suck... I hate them.... Oight !! I've got a lot of time for Keith Schofield he's directed some superb videos One Block Radius - Loud and Clear http://keithschofield.com/1br-video/ DJ Format - 3 Feet Deep http://keithschofield.com/djformat-video/qt7.html

[poog]

i've kind of been slacking off. i'm up to 55 digits of pi

[Catbus]

That would be pretty bitching if you could. My birthday is Pi Day. Just throwing that out there.

[Jeff777]

Savant in training?

[ThePhobiaViewed]

I memorized about 250 for pi day last year. The first 50 will be plastered in my brain for eternity lol, they can just rattle off my tongue. The problem last year was i didn't start until 2 days before hand. Technically memorizing 100 digits a day isn't too bad if you are devoted. Takes maybe 2 hours of off and on focused effort to memorize 100 good enough to remember for a little while. Just memorize it in small clumps that make sense. 50 20 97 494459 for example, those flow for me. don't think of all the numbers individually, think fifty twenty ninety-seven for example. It's not like most people would think it is. It's almost like how when a musician plays a piece from memory they don't know every note, they just know how to start and what phrase comes next. As you recite it then you can almost visualize or kinda get a feeling about what part is next, even if its just following in your mind where the part you are at was on the paper that you memorized the digits from. There is always that pressure of your entire math class wanting to hear you say it. I remember we even loosened up for our trig final when someone asked me to "say pi". Maybe I should go for 500 this year, we could even have a contest to see who can get the most. If nothing else it's a great mental exercise and a great way to keep your nerd status lol.

[Forsaken]

3.1415926535897932384626433832795 is as far as I ever memorized, and I thought that was crazy... Do you ever get the feeling that by memorizing complicated strings like that that you're pushing other things out of your memory to make room? ¬.¬

[poog]

I memorized about 250 for pi day last year. The first 50 will be plastered in my brain for eternity lol, they can just rattle off my tongue. The problem last year was i didn't start until 2 days before hand. Technically memorizing 100 digits a day isn't too bad if you are devoted. Takes maybe 2 hours of off and on focused effort to memorize 100 good enough to remember for a little while. Just memorize it in small clumps that make sense. 50 20 97 494459 for example, those flow for me. don't think of all the numbers individually, think fifty twenty ninety-seven for example. It's not like most people would think it is. It's almost like how when a musician plays a piece from memory they don't know every note, they just know how to start and what phrase comes next. As you recite it then you can almost visualize or kinda get a feeling about what part is next, even if its just following in your mind where the part you are at was on the paper that you memorized the digits from. There is always that pressure of your entire math class wanting to hear you say it. I remember we even loosened up for our trig final when someone asked me to "say pi". Maybe I should go for 500 this year, we could even have a contest to see who can get the most. If nothing else it's a great mental exercise and a great way to keep your nerd status lol. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 is as far as I ever memorized, and I thought that was crazy... Do you ever get the feeling that by memorizing complicated strings like that that you're pushing other things out of your memory to make room? ¬.¬ I don't know. Sometimes I feel if I don't recite pi to myself every once in awhile I'll forget about it because of everything else I'm learning. How much of our brain do we as human actually use again?

[Forsaken]

How much of our brain do we as human actually use again? All of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_b...misconceptions

[Mr. Pig]

3.14159265358979323846264338327950 I memorized that in health class one day, we were wathcing a movie and it was on the wall. It was a very boring movie. Good luck.

[guitarboy]

wow... I wish you the best of luck Certainly not something I would do Or maybe I would just to freak out my friends lol first of all you can be the eggman. it is physically impossible to be the walrus, only john can acheive such a power. also, my birthday is march 14th

[guitarboy]

That would be pretty bitching if you could. My birthday is Pi Day. Just throwing that out there. mine too and my friends, we were born in the same hospital around the same time )

[DNK]

Pi = 3.14159 for all practical purposes. Saved myself God knows how many hours of pointless memorization for 99.99999% of my uses of pi, which I never really use anyway now. Is there something more useful you could be doing with your time? There's trivial knowledge and then there's trivial knowledge... and then there's remember 350 digits of pi, which isn't knowledge in any meaningful form at all. Go watch Pi... the guy drills his brain in the end. It was an appropriate conclusion.

[poog]

All of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_b...misconceptions oh. heh heh. Pi = 3.14159 for all practical purposes. Saved myself God knows how many hours of pointless memorization for 99.99999% of my uses of pi, which I never really use anyway now. Is there something more useful you could be doing with your time? There's trivial knowledge and then there's trivial knowledge... and then there's remember 350 digits of pi, which isn't knowledge in any meaningful form at all. Go watch Pi... the guy drills his brain in the end. It was an appropriate conclusion. My memorization count gets put into the Pi Hall of Fame. What more could I ask for?

[Forsaken]

This thread has inspired me to memorize more Pi. I'm now up to 51 digits.

[TimeStopper]

Have you tried mnemonics? That's how I got 120 digits in 2 days.