Okay, this has to appeal to chess nerds.

 

In the spirit of the add-a-word threads, we each add a digit of pi (the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter), and see how far we can get. Wouldn't it be cool if pi were found to be repeating on a chess.com thread! Please only add one digit before someone else does.

 

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3.1

4

I'm posting infinity in a few minutes. Get it? In a few MINUTES??? LOL!!!!!!

1

5

3.14157

9

3.14159

I once memorized 50 digits after the decimal.  Boy, was that time well spent!?

I memorized 40 or so. My 7th grade math teacher had it around her wall.

3.141592

I've memorized around 180 for my school's competition.  (Yes, I go to a school of geeks )  The record is 520, and I plan to get there by junior year.  (Yes, I know I'm a nerd and probably obsessed )

I took History one summer in a math class with the same thing.  Ah, summer school.  Despite being a chess nerd, I was an awful student.

You learn something new everyday! I've always used PI=3.1415729 as an estimate for PI but geometry books say that's 'only' an ninth-order approximation.

3.1415926

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"It would have been a reprehensibly useless feat had it not been so easy." ~Professor Aitken of Edinburgh after reciting the first 1000 digits of pi

at one point, i had memorized 200 digits

Pi seems to be the most popular irrational number to memorize digits from. I've never heard someone who memorized the first 1000 digits of e, or the Euler constant, or the golden section, or the square root of 2...

 

Maybe we should also start an easier thread for writing digits of rational numbers Then also people who didn't memorize the digits can play without cheating  

LeviAJones wrote: "It would have been a reprehensibly useless feat had it not been so easy." ~Professor Aitken of Edinburgh after reciting the first 1000 digits of pi

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The first 100 digits of pi are sufficient to calculate within the size of a proton the circumference from the radius of any circle that fits in our universe.

peach, cherry, apple...

I asked my dad when I was little, "What would happen to the guy who found out the last decimal digit of pi?"
My dad answered "His head would explode." I spent a week believing that crock.