Who Has Memorized Pi?

jennifer • 8 March 2013 at 8:51 PM

I am SOO failing at this. We have to be able to memorize at LEAST a hundred by the end of the school year. At least 10 people in my class got up to 50. They got fruit snacks for it. I'm still stuck on what's after 535 (lol, only on the first line). So here's how it goes (3.) 1415 926 535 (I'm absolutely sure that I got at least one wrong- bet my life on it). My mom only memorized the first line 40 years ago when I asked her. Maybe it's our genes or something (highly unlikely but whatever)? Pi is useless in life (unless there are contests that offer BRILLIANT prizes for memorizing the 10,00+ numbers that you could support yourself with- other than that, it's useless).

marie_lily • 8 March 2013 at 8:54 PM

This guy in my math class memorized over 1,000 digits of Pi. It's scary.... >.<

mairbear • 8 March 2013 at 8:55 PM

@jennifer

O_O What level of schooling are you in?
I've never had to know Pi to more digits than 3.14

Maybe you could try to memorize it in groups of 10 digits each? And then you just have to remember the order. And 10 digits combos are proven to be easier to remember because they're the same length as a telephone number (it might even help if spaced it like a telephone number) 😃

pebblestar-nightclan • 8 March 2013 at 9:15 PM

@jennifer
You know, I don't know how to HELP you memorize it, I'm sure you know what it is, but... Even so, the first 100 digits to Pi are 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819

Mairbear's suggestion is actually very good; learning them in 10's could be a solution.

icymuffin • 8 March 2013 at 9:15 PM

Mmm~ Try splitting it into small chunks, like 3 or 4 numbers each.
I remember in Psychology class, we tried to memorize long sequences of numbers using a "story", each chunk representing a year/date/or something. Kinda hard to explain... but it worked :I
Then again, it wasn't for such a long sequence :C


I remember, this one guy in math class always had to go sharpen his pencil everyday. Right next to the pencil sharpener was a poster of the first 500ish numbers of pi. So, at the end of the year, he could recite the first 100 or so numbers.... xD

glados • 8 March 2013 at 9:19 PM

In seventh grade we had to memorize some.
I always took them in tens. Repeat the first ten over and over again.
When you have those down without thinking, go to the next ten.
And so on. (:

cat • 8 March 2013 at 9:58 PM

All I memorized was 3... I dunno D:

I have no idea xD

whitefall • 8 March 2013 at 10:36 PM

I want to. >.<

knock yourself out~ 😊
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html

frogtoad • 8 March 2013 at 11:11 PM

@jennifer
All I remember is this: 3.1415 and that's it. 😋

jennifer • 9 March 2013 at 12:33 PM

@marie_lily *faint* XoX

@mairbear Gifted School 5th grade (so, basically, all of our stuff is 6th grade)
That's what I do ( @pebblestar-nightclan @icymuffin @glados ):
1415 / 962 / 535
8979/323/846 and so on...

Deleted • 9 March 2013 at 1:43 PM

@jennifer Weird. I'm in the gifted and talented in my school in fifth grade and We only need to memorize 3.1415 XP I guess I'm dumb

inkstep • 9 March 2013 at 1:48 PM

@jennifer OK we did something like that for a school wide contest andd I remembered the first five hundred or so numbers in just a few weeks
the trick is associating it with something
so what I did was chew gum and make up a tune and memorize the numbers ten at a time, then I would put the tens together two at a time
so I started with
3.141592653 and then started memorizing 5897932384 and then put the two together until I knew those perfectly
evenually I could restate the in a snap
if you need help knowing the numbers, here is the first one hundred thousand digits of pi
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html

jennifer • 14 March 2013 at 7:19 PM

HAPPY PI DAY EVERYONE!!!

Hopefully you have eaten some pie today (cherry for me), if not, you shall suffer the wrath of Einstien - no. He was born today, March 14th. So, did you do anyone fun about Pi in school? I'll post mine later. 😋

redstar-fireclan • 14 March 2013 at 7:22 PM

@Jennifer
Go here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042914569

Lots of numbers
O.O