Memorising constants

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ok so I'm making this thread because I feel like it and am wondering if anypony else memorises a few digits of numbers n stuff. post stuff you know.

stuff I've memorised:

π: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028
e: 2.71828182845904523536028747
τ: 6.283185307179586476925286766559005768394338750211
ln 2: 0.6931471805599
ln 3: 1.09
√0.5: 0.707
√0.75: 0.866
√2: 1.414213562373095048801688
√e: 1.64
√3: 1.73205080
√π: 1.77
√5: 2.23
√6: 2.45
√7: 2.64
√8: 2.828
√10: 3.16
√13: 3.60555
√17: 4.12
e^2: 7.38
pi^2: 9.8696
pi^2/6: 1.64
1/e: 0.36
ln pi: 1.14
e^pi: 23.14
pie: 8.539
e^tau: 535.49
φ: 1.618033
sin 1 (degrees): 0.0174
cos 1 (degrees): 0.9998
 
Strange thing, once I've unintentionally memorized 35 digits of Pi...

Pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288+
e = 2.718281828459045+
Ln(Pi) = 1.1447298+
Sqrt(2) = 1.414213562+
Sqrt(3) = 1.73205080807+
Sqrt(5) = 2.23606+
1/7 = 0.(142857)

- stannic
 
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pi: 1200 digits (I'll reach 1337 by Pi Day next year).
e: 20 digits (I might just do 100 later).
tau: I'd rather just slowly multiply out pi digits by 2 in my head :p
ln2/ln3: 3 digits is enough for me.
root2,3,5: currently at 10 digits, I might learn more.
phi: I only know up to 1.6180, but I should learn more.
 
Here are the numbers I have memorized:

69^0=1
69^1=69
69^2=4761
69^3=328509
69^4=22667121
69^5=1564031349
69^6=1.079181631*10^11
69^7=7.446353253*10^12
 
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I used to know about 175+ digits of pi, but now I just know 3.141592653589793238 off the top of my head. If I wanted to I might be able to remember some more with a little prompting, but I don't care :P
 
When I was in school, I ended up unintentionally memorizing the value of the ideal gas constant in a couple different units, mass of proton, mass of electron, and elementary charge in coulombs.

You know, stuff that's actually useful for doing your homework.

To be fair, knowing 200 digits of pi was useful for me exactly once: when I won $10 in a Pi Day pi reciting contest.
 
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ok so I'm making this thread because I feel like it and am wondering if anypony else memorises a few digits of numbers n stuff. post stuff you know.

stuff I've memorised:

π: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028
e: 2.71828182845904523536028747
τ: 6.283185307179586476925286766559005768394338750211
ln 2: 0.6931471805599
ln 3: 1.09
√0.5: 0.707
√0.75: 0.866
√2: 1.414213562373095048801688
√e: 1.64
√3: 1.73205080
√π: 1.77
√5: 2.23
√6: 2.45
√7: 2.64
√8: 2.828
√10: 3.16
√13: 3.60555
√17: 4.12
e^2: 7.38
pi^2: 9.8696
pi^2/6: 1.64
1/e: 0.36
ln pi: 1.14
e^pi: 23.14
pie: 8.539
e^tau: 535.49
φ: 1.618033
sin 1 (degrees): 0.0174
cos 1 (degrees): 0.9998
The Golden ratio is an obvious one absent from your list. You need to memorize it.
You could also memorize the Feigenbaum constants, which relate to chaos theory. They've been calculated to over 1000 decimal places.
 
Nobody mentioned the speed of light : 299792458 m/s !
And we all know a bunch of phone numbers (at least people old enough like me who can remember the good old phone with the circle to compose the numbers). Here a phone number is 10 digits.
 
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