"How I wish I could calculate pi" is another interesting one
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For more on memorising digits of π, including some amazing feats from Daniel Tammet, Suresh Kumar Sharma and Akira Haraguch...https://mathsedideas.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-pi-day.html?m=1#Memorising …
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In Germany, we have a poem for the same purpose. It is way less fun then Asimov's pons asini, but at least gives us a few more digits:pic.twitter.com/kgMLWpUSsX
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(But the punctuation is gnawing at the editor in me. This is a good place to use a couple em-dashes.) How I want a drink—alcoholic, oh please—after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
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Asimov was notorious for his impeccable lack of punctuation.
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Here's an implementation of this in TI-Basic on the TI-Nspire family of calculators. It's a fun way to connect coding concepts (strings, lengths of strings, for loops, string concatenation, display) to a whimsical way to remember the first few digits of pi.
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Doesn't matter to me, the first 32 digits are hard-wired into my brain thanks to memorising them for two days as a kid. No, seriously, I haven't been able to forget the sequence of those six 5-digit lists, plus the three and the 31st decimal for rounding accuracy.
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3, 14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 and, finally, a 5.
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