Friday, March 6, 2009

Pi
So, I don't know if you all realize this or not, but Pi Day is coming up. It's next Saturaday (March 14, 3/14, 3.14). I hope you all have your parties planned and are making pies and the works. Every year our school has a contest on Pi Day to see who knows the most numbers of pi. Last year someone got to 280 numbers past the decimal. I decided that to prove myself as a math nerd, I would beat that and get 300. I started yesterday. I was going to do fifty a day until I got to 300. I had fifty numbers in my calculator (it is an awesome calculator!). I memorized those during trig class. I wrote it down and recited it a million times. Thoughout the day I cemented it into my memory. I wasn't going to forget those numbers. Today I woke up and printed off about 780 numbers just because that was what was on the screen. I started memorizing. I got all the way to a hundred places past the decimal when it hit me. I wasn't going to be at school the Friday before Pi Day, which was when the competition was. I couldn't compete. I was memorizing the numbers for nothing. What can you possibly do with a hundred numbers of pi? You never need more than 5 at the most. So I figured that posting pi on my blog would have to suffice. Rest assured that this number is coming straight from my memory. Well, here goes-
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
I hope you all celebrate Pi Day next Saturday.

4 comments:

Molly said...

I saw a video of a guy who can do pi to 22,000 numbers. He has some sort of mental ability and is a 'rainman' of sorts with math.

Julie Ramsay said...

Holy Cow Heather! I hereby grant you 1st prize in Pi knowledge on this here blogosphere! Well don!

mindy said...

In fact, you can have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place as well. I'll make you a pie and you can eat the whole thing to celebrate!

Nancy said...

My brain hurts....