Pi memorized to 1000 digits

[momoluvv]

3.1415926535 8979323846 24643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 thats all i know

[MarcUmile]

@momoluvv Maybe you could make 100 by Pi Day 3/14! :-)

[aperki1]

:) That's so cool! I'm 12 and I've only gotten to 74. but i'll get there!

[MarcUmile]

@aperki1 Pretty good. :-) Maybe you can get well over a hundred by this year's Pi Day. Keep pluggin' away.

[GTRracer797]

i have the same keyboard, nice i feel special now

[shadowofthewarriors]

i know 90 but whats more impressive is that he memorized exactly where the 1000th digit is.

[The31415926535Guy]

@shadowofthewarriors Most people who have memorized this much memorize it in groups of 1000

[Piphilologian]

Marc, Great post. Just wanted to drop in and invite you to put up a few digits on cow-pi.com. Right now our record in only 3600. You could crush it! Especially since you seem ok with typing out your digits. A lot of people who verbally recite say typing them makes it harder.

-Ada

[TheSuperFunnyMan]

If I didn't have a life I could challenge your record.

[AqwIBrahFlora]

I know 7 -.-

[The31415926535Guy]

I only know 1300 lol

[MarcUmile]

@boxabicus Pretty good! Memorizing Pi is not an earth shattering thing to do - but like anything else in one's spare time, it's fun to do...

[MarcUmile]

@boxabicus Sure - I agree with you - so it isn't important; doesn't fulfill my entire life, I know. :-) But it was a challenge and a goal to achieve at the time all the same though.

[aquasimians]

Wow, I only know 20 digits of pi

[coolartdudes]

That's crazy! I know the first nine :)

[EthanRDale]

wow good work

[Chamantha10]

You missed a digit. NONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONOONNON­ONNONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lied. U did great XD

[Dogmicspane]

I wonder if you wasted all your brain memory on that.

[freemanmattia]

it looks like an 8086 processor

[aknight999]

"theres no difference between saying ive wasted my time than saying the man who climbed everest wasted his time". On the otherhand, the guy that first climbed everest wasn't a fat, boring american with terrible facial hair.

[tacotank10]

Also, from wikipedia: "While the decimal representation of π has been computed to more than a trillion digits ... the decimal representation of π truncated to 39 decimal places is sufficient to estimate the circumference of any circle that fits in the observable universe with precision comparable to the radius of a hydrogen atom."

[tacotank10]

We used to have that same keyboard on our computer at home.

[64Fathoms]

@tacotank10 interesting. o wait...

[64Fathoms]

@tacotank10 interesting. o wait...

[naztybeaver]

i got bored at school when i had math the other day, and n about 30 mins i memorized 52 decimals. Wonder if i should try to memorize more though...

[pleskinen]

It would really suck to hit num lock 122 digits in... ;-)

[penfags]

22/7 = pi but every one knows that

[MarcUmile]

@penfags Of course, but only out to two decimal places, 3.1428571 :-)

[sharpnova2]

@MarcUmile ok 355/113 then.

[steveurk3]

@MarcUmile no 3.14159

[jasonmage]

@penfags 22/7 is different from pi

[parakeets123]

@penfags no it is not it only starts with 3.14 but it is not write it is more than pie after that

[charispser]

what for ? lol

[dmenkhau]

Hi. I can remember this..

3.14

xD You're great!

I'm only 9, and I hate math, but Pi is the only thing about math interesting to me.

[msc50]

Martin Armstrong has great examples of pi in his cycle theory.

It is present at many different time scales.

[ladyhagood]

There is nothing stupid about understanding the importance of pi. The world and its structures would not be the same if man had not come to understand and implement pi in engineering. Let's see, do you have any real talent..besides posting negative things on youtube all day.

[parkvasi]

Two questions...

What is the point?

What is the real value of this stupidity?

[aescrc]

Being as mathematical as he must be, I can't believe he does the number pad with one finger.

[Th3James]

O_O

[juggerfox]

this is when i don't feel like such an idiot for playing warcraft when there are people that will memorize a number and type it out... 1000 digits... actually, I do feel like an idiot now!

[arunananth10]

You're just jealous.

[pireciter12]

Much unlike the rest of the commenters here, I actually admire people who can perform such feats. I'm up to just over 1,000 digits myself and am certainly not ashamed of it!

[dmanschaumbizzie]

@pireciter12 is there a trick at all to memorizing it? or is it in no order or anything?

[pireciter12]

@dmanschaumbizzie I take a string of 50 digits at a time and read it flat and dull at first, then read it again and try to make some smaller strings of numbers (anywhere between 3 and 8) that seem to go together in a bit of rhythm. Once I get all the numbers in that line in such smaller strings, I recite it quite a few times to get a good hang of it. From there on, I just say it a couple times a day most everyday. Eventually, it becomes pretty unforgettable, even after months of no recitation.