• Question: do you know the value of pi off by heart! i know the first bit goes 3.14159265!

    Asked by alice1996 to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Blimey – I only know it off by heart as far as 3.142.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Wow, you already know it a lot better than me… I always just round it up to 3.142. I’m impressed!

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      Leo Garcia answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      The world record for reciting the most digits of Pi off by heart is held by Lu Chao, a graduate student from China. He can recite Pi to 67,890 digits, without making a mistake!

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Chao

      The name given to the hobby (?) of memorising Pi is ‘Piphilology’:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

    • Photo: Gioia Cherubini

      Gioia Cherubini answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      That’s much more I have ever learnt! I thought it was enough to remember 3.14…

    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Nobody can know the value of pie off by heart, because it goes on forever! I know it up to 3.14159 though, and have never needed a more accurate value than that.

Comments

  • Photo: alice1996

    alice1996 commented on :

    HeHe, i learnt it off the Night at the Museum 2 movie!! 🙂

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    ilovespacemonkeys commented on :

    lol we used to have it on our wall in maths and we got so bored we didnt listen to the teacher and just learnt pie off by heart , it got to a point when she asked us a question and we’d just answer with as many numbers as we could remember from pie…. but then she took it down D:
    I love you pie! lol 😀

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    07smcnaughton commented on :

    🙂 or twilight it tells you it on there

  • Photo: alice1996

    alice1996 commented on :

    it is a good movie! we’re trying to set up a chat with you but it’s not working! 🙁

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    lindsaydexter commented on :

    yeaaaaa i know it off twilight too ;D edward cullen <3 haha

  • Photo: 07smcnaughton

    07smcnaughton commented on :

    i know i’m gutted i had loads of questions aswell 🙂 i wouldn’t recokmened twilight its rubbish :L <3

  • Photo: Jo

    Jo commented on :

    Do you mean your teacher is trying to set up a chat? Because I think only the teachers can do that.
    Sorry 07smcnaughton, I like Twilight – in fact I have to watch the first two movies again soon ready for when the new one comes out.

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    jennieanalex commented on :

    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 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989 3809525720 1065485863 2788659361 5338182796 8230301952 0353018529 6899577362 2599413891 2497217752 8347913151 5574857242 4541506959