In high school, I went around reciting pi. It was no wonder I didn't get any dates... I just asked my wife and she didn't even know that I could recite pi to 16 digits (all I can muster now) so I guess I wouldn't go around chanting it all the time like I used to. Internally though, I'd be proud. :)
Yeah, I'm glad that the actual picks didn't force my to choose between pride and secrecy. This way, I could be proud and still keep quiet about it. And why wouldn't I be proud? I'd either have a cyclopean memory, or a vigorous grasp of arithmetic to calculate it on the fly. Either way, whoo-hoo!
My friend Fred used to work in a math lab, where pi had been calculated to hundreds of places, and in his idle moments he would memorize it. He got to at least 40, and everyone we knew was duly impressed.
I think there should be badges like we have here on fanpop, but with more gradation! Then people who'd memorized pi to some reasonable number of places could wear their badge with pride: "I'm a red level 10 pi master!"! There'd be a badge to differentiate people who'd memorized every ten places. But then we'd have to bow our heads in deference to the quadruple purple grand pi masters when they walked by, quaking in our boots lest they turn their swollen-headed gazes on us and thus explode our cerebella with the intensity of their math god-hood...so maybe not.
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For the record, I can't recite pi to anything, but I would indeed show off about my nerdish-self if I could.
My friend Fred used to work in a math lab, where pi had been calculated to hundreds of places, and in his idle moments he would memorize it. He got to at least 40, and everyone we knew was duly impressed.
I think there should be badges like we have here on fanpop, but with more gradation! Then people who'd memorized pi to some reasonable number of places could wear their badge with pride: "I'm a red level 10 pi master!"! There'd be a badge to differentiate people who'd memorized every ten places. But then we'd have to bow our heads in deference to the quadruple purple grand pi masters when they walked by, quaking in our boots lest they turn their swollen-headed gazes on us and thus explode our cerebella with the intensity of their math god-hood...so maybe not.
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