Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

[BGarrett7]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

What are we, physicists?

No, but I would imagine a large number of OS posters are still at least taking high school mathematics courses.

[The GIGGAS]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

No, but I would imagine a large number of OS posters are still at least taking high school mathematics courses.

Well... yeah... but how important is pi going to be if we end up working in an office?

[dkgojackets]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

I know it as the pi button on my calculator

[Hooe]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

I thought me knowing it to 13 places was pretty good... I guess not.

The things people can remember... sometimes it can be amazing.

[BGarrett7]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Well... yeah... but how important is pi going to be if we end up working in an office?

Well, to that I say: How relevant is a lot of things you learned in HS in the real world?

On a sidenote, I think it is important to say that I am an aspiring high school math teacher.

[The GIGGAS]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Well, to that I say: How relevant is a lot of things you learned in HS in the real world?

On a sidenote, I think it is important to say that I am an aspiring high school math teacher.

Well that explains a bit, man...

Well, I am in a business course learning HTML, PageMaker, Photoshop... so there are some relevant things.

[daflyboys]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

mmmmmm.......piiiiiiiiii

[CMH]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Am I the only one not impressed?

It's not like this means the kid is a genius or math guru. It just means he has an incredible memory.

I mean, hey, being able to remember all that is impressive (so I take it back, I guess I am impressed, but for different reasons). I'm impressed he can remember that many digits in a particular order. But, when you really think about it, it doesn't really say much about his intelligence or future.

[heelsman22]

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I wonder if he enters all 8784 digits that he knows in to his calculator during class when he does equations with pi.

[Beantown]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Yeah...there's this button on my calculator...that does the remembering for me.

[cjonesfan921]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

That carries two like decimal places, you aren't about to get accurate calculations that way.

Actually 22/7 is exdactly what pi is. 22/7=3.14blahblahblah(all those numbers).

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Man, that's just crazy. He'd be able to breeze thru the first 2 years of med school with a memory like that.

[BGarrett7]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

Actually 22/7 is exdactly what pi is. 22/7=3.14blahblahblah(all those numbers).

Uh, no it's not.

22/7 = 3.1428571428571428571428571428571
Π = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795

Hardly the same.

Pi has no fractional equivilant. It's like e and other numbers which can only be expressed in decimal form.

[ballerzinc]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

There's a pi world ranking?!!!!!!!!!!

[The GIGGAS]

Re: Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

****, that's in Salem!!!

****... he's a hometown nerd!