memorize pi

“How I Want A Drink, Alcoholic Of Course, After The heavy Chapters Involving Quantum Mechanics”

Heh. I knew 60, but creating a pi story makes it so much easier to remember. Shiny bunny mail atop a MASH video? The lie’s lush touch had affect. The key fish should chat sailing more today, a job in lazy napping, leaching Lilly Chi’s money. Our mediator lies fully, bugging a family teacher. A sad guy knocking for a petty jacket, Rod, a hill lad, caught dear, chubby, giddy Tom. A shift in noise ropes a loud tone. 88 digits. ¦D

3.14159265358979323846263383279502

Not much.

My friend actually has a big book of the decimal places of pi.

Maths geek!

So far Ive gotten 3.14159565358979. Keep a post it of at least the next four digits after learning the previouse four. I dont know when I want to stop, but I know I want to get in the triple digits at least before considering it.

Here’s a good trick: write all the numbers but put slight marks on all of them to make each number different, like adding a little “tick” to a 9 in an unusual place, and recite the numbers to a certain beat while reading it out. Then close your eyes, try to visualize the page with the numbers as well as you can, and check back on the page to confirm your visual memory of the little tick-marks, or additional tiny circles, or whatever you decide to use.

Obvious, easy-to-remember patterns work best – in my case, I used little moving stick-figure cartoon people on the numbers; if you look at it like a flip-book, you could see them dancing, running, jumping, climbing, and other stuff. Or there was another one where a flower grew into a tree.

But any way you do it, when you recite, the locations of the little markings will help you remember what comes next. So you don’t even have to memorize all of them, or put special markings on all of the digits – putting them in like little land-marks will help you either way by allowing you to mentally separate sequences into small chunks.

Sequences being, of course, another trick. It helps to break things down into smaller heuristics. Ten digits at a time might work, for an example.

In my case, I memorize by sequences until the next zero, because that way the zeroes can each have one tick-mark which goes clockwise in a simple pattern, which is easy to visuallize.

The first digit is 31 digits in (including the three) so the first tick mark would be perfectly up, at twelve o’clock. With the next zero, it would be where a minute hand goes at 12:01, then the next at 12:02, and so forth.

The advantage is that it’s an easy way of measuring your progress through pi, as you “watch” all the little animations go by. The disadvantage is that if you can’t visualize the numbers at a particular moment (i.e. distractions like bright, rapidly-blinking lights that bother you even with your eyes closed), you might have difficulty reciting by the sound of your voice alone.

a friend of mine bet me a night’s worth of beer that i wouldn’t memorize pi to 140 places

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172

it was completely worth it

Happy Pi Day, all!

I’ve memorised 104 digits so far for the occasion. I want to actually keep up with it so I don’t have to re-memorise every Pi Day. Exercise my pi digits once in a while – why not exercise a brain like a body?

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706

hehehe ¦ ) Alt 227

Anyway, I’m up to 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841. Still working!!! Can’t wait for pi day!!

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