Pi

I know the first 100 really well, but I once knew 300. It annoyed the hell out of my friends when I used to recite them at school. They made a song about me:

I like pi, you like pi,
3 point 1-4-1-5-9
With a rad-ius and circumference too
Hello my name is Andrew

To the tune of that nursery rhyme (?) with "give a dog a bone" in it, I forget what it's called. They wrote verses as well!

By the way, those songs where the number of letters in each word corresponds to each decimal place are called 'piems'. :D
 
you guys got me interested and now i haev it memorized up to 132 decimal places xD. the first 40 were really easy, then moderately difficult up to 70. up to 110 was a little hard, and now i'm struggling to add on more.
 
Pi is a number, not a representation of one. You might write "3.1415...", but that's not the number. It's only a representation of it. You cannot write down the number itself at all. The number itself is an abstract something which doesn't have or need a representation. Particularly not a particular one, so what really annoyed me about Tox|k's message was that it suggested a base-10 representation as *the* way to write pi.

And you probably wanted to say you remembered "the first five digits".
 
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The oldest BLD solver in the world: Mats Bergsten has done 9,000!!! decimals of pi.

For the upcoming cube day he asked for 4x4 and 5x5 BLD, do you think he will do it??

9,000! - wait till he starts to do multi BLD, this is a memory master :)

(I guess he don't do multi yet because he is still to slow, he has only done BLD cubing for a short time)

EDIT: My misstake, I just checked, he did register for multi at the cube day... but he did not do it a SOC two months ago)
 
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Yeah yeah... I knew I cut him/myself some slack there. It'd be unnecessary and annoying to always add "the representation of", I just disliked Tox|k specifically talking about a certain representation as if it were *the one*. He talked about the digits on a higher level so I took the opportunity to point out more mathematical beauty. My other comment... "number" was simply ambiguous, "digit" is much clearer and even shorter.
 
cuBerBruce said:
Kenneth said:
cuBerBruce said:
Kenneth said:
The oldest BLD solver in the world: Mats Bergsten has done 9,000!!! decimals of pi.
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Of course, there is someone who is older than Mats who has had a successful BLD solve.
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Yes, but not in a WCA competiton
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Wrong!
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I assume you mean Bill McGaugh? He got a solve a couple of years ago, when he was younger than Mats. But he's older than Mats now. So Mats is the person who was oldest while getting a successful solve in competition, and Bill is the oldest person who has had a successful BLD solve. So Bruce is right.

For Mats to ever beat Bill with Bruce's record, he will have to outlive Bill. :)
 
Mike Hughey said:
cuBerBruce said:
Kenneth said:
cuBerBruce said:
Kenneth said:
The oldest BLD solver in the world: Mats Bergsten has done 9,000!!! decimals of pi.
Click to expand...

Of course, there is someone who is older than Mats who has had a successful BLD solve.
Click to expand...

Yes, but not in a WCA competiton
Click to expand...

Wrong!
Click to expand...

I assume you mean Bill McGaugh? He got a solve a couple of years ago, when he was younger than Mats. But he's older than Mats now. So Mats is the person who was oldest while getting a successful solve in competition, and Bill is the oldest person who has had a successful BLD solve. So Bruce is right.

For Mats to ever beat Bill with Bruce's record, he will have to outlive Bill. :)
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Yes, Mike, that's who I meant (Bill). Of course, Mats is the oldest based upon age at the time of the person's most recent solve. (In fact, both of them have only one successful official BLD solve each, as of today.)
 
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