Friday, March 14 (3.14) will be Ο-day -- and I look back and remember how one of my high school math teachers challenged me and my classmates to come to class prepared to recite as many digits of Ο as we could remember, I was not a particularly good memorizer and was delighted to learn that the lengths of the words in this sentence:
How I wish I could calculate pi !
are the first seven digits of pi . . . . and the lengths of the words in the following rhyme give the first thirteen digits:
See, I have a rhyme assisting
my feeble brain,
its tasks sometime resisting.
More here (in a blog posting from way back in 2010)
AND
This link leads to a webpage offering a million digits of Ο.
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What a fun and clever way to remember Ο! Using word lengths as a memory aid makes math feel poetic and playful. πΆπ’
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