[Oberon] Fun with π

[Jörg]

Here a comedian who sings digits of pi to win the heart of his girl friend, a mathematician: https://youtu.be/_QB93FpzC0s
5:30 38 digits
6:50 78 digits
7:50 115 digits

Br Jörg

> Am 15.03.2022 um 05:03 schrieb Chris Burrows <cfbsoftware at gmail.com>:
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>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:15 AM Hans Klaver <hklaver at dds.nl> wrote:
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>> In Oberon System V5 it can calculate about 10,000 digits, and several hundreds of 
>> thousands of digits can be produced by a slight variation of the algorithm run from 
>> the command line (see the third program).
>> 
> Interesting...
> 
> 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:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Arlam70bI
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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