pi memorizers?

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How many pi memorizers do we have here? I learned the first 1700 digits when I first learned about pi in Geometry class eons ago. Now I can only remember the first few hundred:

Pi = 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196
4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273
7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094
3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548

Lemme see....

THREE,...

Point....

One,four,...uhhh....uh.....

Thats it!

3.14 is as far as I can go!

I'd love to know the story behind the Pi team photo!

1700?
that
is
amazing
i learned the first 120 when i was 14 now i am 15 and i think i remember the fist 100

That's great! Any plans to keep going?

The one millionth digit of pi (after the decimal point) is 1.

Do you use the method of loci to recall the digits?

3.14159. the rest doesn't matter and is uninteresting to me.

but i'd like to have that memorization skill, reserved for things i am indeed fond of.

3.14159265.

Thats all the digits of PI that was in the C64, and the only ones i learned

Daniel Tammet (Aspie and Savant) can recall 20000 digits of PI:

I can remember it to 7 decimal places. Don't ask me why, I guess it's one of the few things I remember from the multitudes of maths I had to do at high school to get into a science degree. None of the advanced maths I learned has been in any way useful in my career mind you.

No. I just go by the patterns among the numbers. I wish I had synasthesia like Daniel Tammet. But I can see how that could be distracting in everyday life.

I am into the math myself. cool formulas

Learned it up to 3.14159265... because it rings like a phone number or song jingle. If you can natively read latex like reading it in a pdf here is a formula I like for pi.

\pi = \lim_{k \to \infty} \frac{2^{4k}, k \binom{2k, k}^2}

Got it from the link. Decided it looked cool. It is the last formula on the webpage. Why memorize part of pi with a few of its digits, when you can memorize the whole thing with a formula? Seems more practical to me.

π - I guess I win?

Otherwise it'd just be 3.14, because when you put it against a mirror, it reads PI.E!

Hi, I am looking for tips on how to remember at least 1000 digits of Pi

Why: My psychologist asks me to count my breathing during meditation to avoid flooding of thoughts in our latest session, but that is just way too boring for me to focus on so she agrees that I can try to recite one digit of Pi with each breath. In order to do that, I think I need to at least remember 1000 digits of Pi for a good meditation session.

Can someone please share their tips? I only know 3.1415926535 for now

1000 digits might be a bit too much, because in meditation you probably want to do 1 breath every 2 seconds (to utilise the full capacity of your lungs without giving yourself too much oxygen). Doing 1000 digits would give you 2000 seconds, roughly half an hour of meditation.

Although I don't know what tips to give you to remember the digits, perhaps trying for 500 digits first might be better? (Giving ~15 minutes of meditation)

Also, count the decimal point as a digit. You're going to have to say "point" (or if your american, "period"?) at some point, might as well get an extra free breathe!

Good point lol, I can gradually increase the length of my meditation as I memorize more digits. I generally do 45 breaths per minute in meditation currently though probably because I am a beginner (and I get bored counting breaths after 10 or so), but I guess memorize 45 digits is good enough for now. I think my psychologist wants me to eventually do 5min session everyday and longer during weekends, but I guess a good 1 minute is better than a 5 min filled with random thoughts for now.

And unfortunately, the period can't count as a breath for me. Don't you get frustrated that every breath depends on a number except one breath which depends on a period??? I don't know for others, but that disruption would totally ruin the mood for me.