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26 Apr 2006, 11:05 pm

How many digits of Pi do you know?

I memorized 200 decimal places. I wonder if a lot of people with Asperger's syndrome like to memorize pi.

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27 Apr 2006, 1:16 am

170 so far... A while back I told myself I'd stop at 100 (I just wanted to be in the 'Pi 100-Club'), but obviously I kept going I like to use this page to help me: http://x42.com/cgi-bin/pitrainer.cgi

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27 Apr 2006, 11:44 am

I only know it to 30 places...but I have a book with Pi to 1000 places.

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30 Apr 2006, 5:52 pm

I have one million places of Pi

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30 Apr 2006, 9:30 pm

3.141592

Thats all I know it to off the top of my head.

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01 May 2006, 10:28 am

Why bother memorizing pi ? If you are going to spend a lot of time learning something, why not make it something that is actually useful? Or artistic?

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01 May 2006, 8:07 pm

I've never tried memorising pi. If I tried I'd be able to remember it to a lot of places.

It was one of the questions people used to go around asking me at school. I told them 3.14, because that's all I knew.

I much prefer memorising words and names, such as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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04 May 2006, 2:47 am

emp wrote:

Why bother memorizing pi ? If you are going to spend a lot of time learning something, why not make it something that is actually useful? Or artistic?

Memorizing pi has several benefits:
-It can improve one's ability to remember numbers.
-It demonstrates nerd pride.
-It is much easier for me than for neurotypicals.
-It is fun, just like reading the dictionary or watching the Weather Channel for two hours.

I think it is a slightly better use of time than playing video games or watching a non-educational television program.

BTW: I memorized 80 more digits last night.

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04 May 2006, 3:53 am

emp wrote:

Why bother memorizing pi ? If you are going to spend a lot of time learning something, why not make it something that is actually useful? Or artistic?

What is useful? I can't think anything, what is really useful

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04 May 2006, 6:39 am

pi.... nope....

phi .... yes... around 100..

primes.... upto 100 and counting....

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04 May 2006, 1:20 pm

Keeno wrote:

I've never tried memorising pi. If I tried I'd be able to remember it to a lot of places.
I much prefer memorising words and names, such as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

...A village in Wales which, incredibly enough, uses its name as its domain name. Yep... http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/ I believe it's pronounced "Llanfair PG".

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06 May 2006, 5:23 pm

I knew (and still know) about 140. It started when a NT friend and I entered into a pi war

After I renounced my math-nerdery earlier this year, I have seen no reason to further pursue it.

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21 Nov 2009, 12:21 am

428 digits

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21 Nov 2009, 1:47 pm

When I was around 12 years old (many years ago) I memorised it to around 150 decimal places. Everyone else thought it was a strange thing to do. However, since discovering Aspergers and this site it seems everyone here is doing it :lol:

Maybe it should be one of the Aspergers diagnostic questions: How many places do you know pi to?

Out of curiosity does anyone else break it down like me into little sing along chunks:

3. 141 592 65 35 8 979 323 84626 43383 etc

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23 Nov 2009, 6:38 pm

X wrote:

How many digits of Pi do you know?

I memorized 200 decimal places. I wonder if a lot of people with Asperger's syndrome like to memorize pi.

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23 Nov 2009, 7:04 pm

3.14

And that, in my opinion as a gen-yoo-wine but thoroughly out of practice MPhys, is exactly how much I need to know about pi. I mean, really, that's good enough for any rough practical calculation I'm ever likely to need, and if I ever need more, I'd press the pi button on the calculator.

That's not to say that if I was using it on a regular basis I wouldn't end up remembering it for a few more decimal places, but that'd be just from habituation - I'd never make an attempt to memorise it (and it wouldn't work if I did!)

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