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PiPhilology
v. 9.0 (19 Jan. 1998)
Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
xpolakis@prometheus.hol.gr
http://users.hol.gr/~xpolakis
G R E E C E
A. THE COLLECTION
1. DESCRIPTION
PiPhilology is a collection of Pi mnemonics (ie. sentences to memorize
the first digits of Pi) and Pi related poems.
Pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510....
Example: AEI O QEOS O MEGAS GEWMETREI......
3 1 4 1 5 9
2. CONTENTS
[ X = eXtension, -X = shortening, (x) = the number of pi mnemonics]
Mnemonics I:
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan (2), ChiShona, Cornish,
Czech (3), Danish, Dutch (8), English (40+X/-X), French (2+X/-X), German (5+X),
Greek (3), Hungarian (3), Irish, Italian (2), Latin, Norwegian (2), Persian (2),
Polish (10), Portuguese (7), Romanian (4), Russian (5), Sindebele, Slovak (3),
Slovene (6), Spanish (7), Swedish (2)
Mnemonics II:
In Chinese, Danish, English (Limericks/Misc. Poems/Songs/Cheers), Finnish,
Polish, Russian, In Several Languages.
Mnemonics III:
Chinese (5), Japanese (3), In Japanese,
Mnemonics IV :
Czech, English (2), Finnish, German, Indian, Spanish
Pi Mnemotechniques:
Musical, Conway's, Grey's, Mahadevan's, Misc.
Poems:
A collection of Pi related poems.
Appendices:
1/Pi, logPi, e, loge, c, sqrts mnemonics in several languages.
3. CHANGES (since v. 8.0)
Additions
Type I:
Pi: English #3.X2, #11.26.2, #6X1.1, #6X2.2, #36-40; ChiShona; French #1.20, #2;
German #2.3, #2.4; Portuguese #7; Sindebele; Spanish #3.4
Type III:
sqrts: Chinese
Type IV:
e: Russian #2
Poems 1: German #1.3, #1.4, #2
Poems 21: Anonymous; Megan; Hannah Stein
Poems 22: Anonymous; Zita Maria Evensen #1,#2; Gregory Kwok; A. Luode;
Luis Madureira; Flocons De Mais; j.micale; L. Edgar Otto; Ken Palmer;
Abhijit Sengupta; Jeremy Williams.
Limericks II, #8
B. THE FILE
1. REQUIREMENTS
Macintosh version:
MacOS 7.5.x; Color Monitor; Ismini font by Nikos Goulandris
(Font included; drag it onto your System Folder. Or:
"using ResEdit, open the DocMaker document and the font, then copy the
following resources: "FONT", "FOND", "NFNT", "sfnt" from the font to
the document. If some of them are missing, simply copy the rest. Save and
quit". From: Vittorio Barabino)
2. AVAILABILITY
I. Macintosh version:
This is a DOCMaker format stand-alone document in three parts.
Original Site:
http://users.hol.gr/~xpolakis/piphil.html
Final versions:
1. The Mathematics Archives FTP site:
ftp://archives.math.utk.edu/software/mac/miscellaneous/PiPhilology/
2. Info - Mac Archive:
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=pi-philology
and its mirrors: http://www.pht.com/info-mac/mirror-list.html
(directory: /sci, archived file: pi-philology-??.hqx)
Please try one closest to you.
3. Olov Windelius' Home Page (Sweden):
http://www.ts.umu.se/~olletg/pi/sentence.html
II. Text version:
Original Site:
http://users.hol.gr/~xpolakis
Final versions:
University of Cagliari ftp Site (Sardinia, Italy):
ftp://tex.unica.it/pub/docs/maths/
Archived file: PiPhilology.gz
III. HTMLized Text version:
1. Topology Atlas (Canada):
http://www.unipissing.ca/topology/z/a/a/a/26.htm
2. Instituto de Ciencias Mathematicas de Sao Carlos (Brazil):
http://www.icmsc.sc.usp.br/~mac/jbe/PiPh.html
3. Filipe Silva's Home Page (Portugal):
http://atlantis.fe.up.pt/~ftpmaint/engl/pi2.html
3. SOFTWARE TYPE
It is Freeware for any *NON-PROFIT* use.
Antreas P. Hatzipolakis
G R E E C E
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
-- Virgil