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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: PIqued!
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:35:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.110145.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> <1992Nov9.043447.5968@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Nov10.122923.25536@black.ox.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov10.122923.25536@black.ox.ac.uk> microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Microsoc) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov9.043447.5968@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >>eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
- >>| In article <29OCT199216261065@adpdp2.lanl.gov>, 108116@adpdp2.lanl.gov (108116) writes:
- >>| > Ok guys! What mnemonics do you all know? The more unusual the better, I'll
- >>| > start you off:
- >>|
- >>| Well, there's the one for remembering the first hundred or so digits
- >>| of pi. It starts out as "God, I need a drink!" Can't have been a
- >>| very good mnemonic, though: I've forgotten the rest.
- >>
- >>OK, I don't *think* I'm stupid, but how does one use "God, I need a drink"
- >>to remember 3.14159?
- >
- >Count the number of letters in each word....
- >
- >Again, it can't be a good mnemonic since I can't remember it, but isn't it
- >something like
- >"God, I need a drink (alcoholic of course) after that heavy
- >lecture involving Quantum Mechanics?"
- >(Would give 3.14159265457979... is that right, anyone?)
- >
- >Marc Read
-
- Er..sorry Marc, the value of PI as I remember it to 32 decimals is :
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- 3.14159265358979323846264338432792
-
- The mnemonic that I use is :
-
- Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling,
- In mystic force and magic spelling,
- celestial sprites elucidate,
- All my own striving can't relate!
-
- Unfortunately, this takes care of just 20 decimal places.
-
- Could anyone who has the 100 decimal mnemonic, please post it?
-
- Also, since the value of PI has been calculated upto a million
- decimal places, if anyone has it on-line, could you please e-mail
- it to me?
-
- Thanks
- Mandar.
-
-
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