How can anyone remember 100,000 numbers?

The Japan Times ^ | 12/23/06 | TOMOKO OTAKE

[Tijeras_Slim]

What's the favorite drink of the exercise concious mathematician?
Pi-lattes

[mike_9958]

great pic....

and a more compelling reason to prefer phi.

[raybbr]

How can anyone remember 100,000 numbers?

Easy. 1,2,3,4,... 99,998, 99,999, 100,000.

There. That wasn't so hard.

[AmishDude]

For the record, that was intended as a stunt to show that the legislature would pass anything. The sponsor wasn't that ignorant.

[LonePalm]

It's a made up word to sound like pi and poem.

En français, "poem" est le poème. So perhaps a piem would be "le pième." It would NEVER make it past l'Académie française though.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[William Tell]

Here is the sequence I memorized years ago:
3.14159 26535 8979 3238 4626433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510

It's fifty decimal places, which includes the second zero digit, but the breaks are uneven because I memorized it from several sources. To recall it I have to hear the sounds of the digits mentally in the groupings I have shown. Sometimes, if I haven't recited it for years, I have to count the digits to make sure that I haven't omitted a group.

There wasn't much to do while on guard duty in the Army. We weren't allowed to read, so this filled many hours. Part of the fascination is that somewhere in my brain is the physical representation for this sequence; taking up room that could have been used for something more important.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

But it German that awkward construction, piem, reduces to the simple Ludolphischzahlgedächtnisgedicht.

[bert]

I still wonder about my loglogdecitrig sliderule....

How did they precisely locate pi?

[Larry Lucido]

I don't know. I've got all the positive whole numbers between 1 and 100,000 all memorized. I can even recite them in order.

[bert]

I always try the proportion in everything I design.

[GregoryFul]

That doesn't seem to work out. (L*G)^2/800 = Wt. But (L*R)^2/800 seems to, where R is radius of girth (G/2*Pi).

[LonePalm]

Not my formula. Read up.

Merry Christmas

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)