Why do people memorize the numbers in pi? Isn't it just a waste of space? I mean it isn't something that we

Just for fun. I did the first 36 digits when I was in high school. When I figured that that was enough to compute the circumference of the solar system to within a fraction of an inch, I quit.

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I don't know. Maybe it is just what us math nerds do. In graduate school, my friends made up a game of who could memorize the most digits of pi. We never got THAT far, but it was fun (to us!)

I don't know about everyone else, but I did it for the heck of it.

I won a pi day competition by reciting 400 digits of pi from memory:-)

If you can spare the brain space, I don't see anything wrong with it. Pi is a very useful number. Most calculators have a pi button that gives it to 8 places, but sometimes that's not enough. Sometimes, to compute circle dimensions from measurements, a higher accuracy in needed.

Wow, that is amazing. Just to think it took a whole day to say 100,000 digits.

No thanks to a math teacher who wanted VERY precise approximations, I had to memorize pi as equal to 3.14159.

Yes , me too.

Going to this sort of trouble to memorize random numbers seems even weirder

http://www.memorise.org/lesson3.htm

but it takes all types.

Best of Luck - Mike

GOD!! I actually have never heard of this kind of contests before... I believe its a waste of time... no practical aplication

mental exercise i suppose like weight lifting contests