<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Here a comedian who sings digits of pi to win the heart of his girl friend, a mathematician: <a href="https://youtu.be/_QB93FpzC0s">https://youtu.be/_QB93FpzC0s</a><div>5:30 38 digits</div><div>6:50 78 digits</div><div>7:50 115 digits<div><br><div dir="ltr">Br Jörg</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Am 15.03.2022 um 05:03 schrieb Chris Burrows <cfbsoftware@gmail.com>:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:15 AM Hans Klaver <<a href="mailto:hklaver@dds.nl">hklaver@dds.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
In Oberon System V5 it can calculate about 10,000 digits, and several hundreds of <br>
thousands of digits can be produced by a slight variation of the algorithm run from <br>
the command line (see the third program).<br><br></blockquote><div>Interesting...</div><div><br></div><div>There's an English guy, Daniel Tammett, who was able to memorise the value of π to 22,514 decimal places. It took him a few weeks to learn and 5 hours and 9 minutes to recite it: He talks about it in an interview with David Letterman:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Arlam70bI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Arlam70bI</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Chris</div></div></div>
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