How many digits of Pi Can you memorize?

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<p>Does the decimal point between the 3 and 1 count? </p>

<p>If so, 5. :D</p>

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<p>this is how many i know
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230</p>

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<p>why would you want to memorize pi? e is where it’s at.</p>

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<p>3.1415926</p>

<p>thats what i remember from my crazy ass 6th grade math teacher
ahahha</p>

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<p>During my APUSH exam I worked on memorizing pi (wrote it on my hand and copied it down over and over on the test). I knew around 50 digits at that point, but have forgotten them all by now.</p>

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<p>^ I’m guessing you either knew for a fact that you were going to ace it… or quite the opposite</p>

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<p>3.1415926535897932384626433</p>

<p>The first few dozen places of pi were listed on a scroll that wrapped around the walls of my discrete math classroom, so when I got bored I’d stare off at a wall and try and memorize pi. I think I knew more at one point, but whatever.</p>

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<p>There’s a song called Mathematical Pi that takes you up to about 30 decimal places, then I memorized a few after that. Then I realized how pointless it was.</p>

<p>3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375</p>

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<p>When you get to a certain point, can you get away with just making up numbers?</p>

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<p>LaTina i shall win</p>

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<p>^ Pfft, no.</p>

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<p>Try making up numbers really fast. I can’t do it >_> and I end up saying numbers above 9</p>

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<p>3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510. </p>

<p>I memorized 100 digits for a Pi Day contest when I was in middle school. I only remember 50 of them now.</p>

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<p>got 261 for a pi day contest. Now I only remember 80 :P</p>

<p>I think the most I had memorized in one day was like 50 though.</p>

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<p>know up to …375105 by muscle memory, literally I can say it faster not thinking about it than concentrating. I’ve memorized like 150, but forgot it except for that string. Its been since 7th grade. Might go for 1k someday, learning Pi isn’t that bad, its all about breaking it up.</p>

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<p>It’s more difficult to pull off than you would expect.</p>

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It is also much more difficult than expected to pretend to be speaking another language.</p>

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<p>I was talking to a friend in Europe the other day, and I was telling her how I had memorized this crazy long string of numbers to call her with a calling card (access number + PIN + her number), and when I recited it to her she said, “Kind of like memorizing pi, huh?”</p>

<p>And so today I got this crazy idea to start memorizing it - lol. So far I’ve got it to this:</p>

<p>3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510</p>

<p>(50 decimal places)</p>

<p>I’m not a genius by any means, but it only took me about 20 minutes to memorize that much. It’s really not that hard if you use some mnemonic devices. There are some easy-to-remember sequences in there (like 979, 323), plus I associate some parts with phone numbers, area codes, years, and other numbers of significance.</p>

<p>I had to stop there today because I thought I might go crazy and start wasting too much time if I went beyond that. Maybe I’ll go up a few more digits per day. I do think it would be kind of cool to get to the [Feynman</a> point](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_point]Feynman”>Six nines in pi - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Or am I just a nerd deep down? ;)</p>

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<p>When someone tells me pi then I think 3.14159. I probably would’ve only known the first three if I hadn’t listened to the pi song two years ago in math class. If you for some reason want to know many digits, then I recommend listening to the pi song, it’s easier memorize when it’s a song (I think).</p>