Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for February 16, 2017
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Transcript:
How to tell the difference science fan scientist how many digits of Pi have you memorized? 1,681. I add a new one every day. How many digits of Pi have you memorized? ... ... ... ...one?
Hey, when you grew up with slide rules, 3.14 was as good as it got (And you hoped the slide rule with pi and e marked on them really were more accurate than that…)
After reading Starman Jones by Heinlein, I memorized pi out to 30 places…
3.14159265358979 is about what I remember 55 years later… Never did need it to that accuracy…
Hey, when you grew up with slide rules, 3.14 was as good as it got (And you hoped the slide rule with pi and e marked on them really were more accurate than that…)
After reading Starman Jones by Heinlein, I memorized pi out to 30 places…
3.14159265358979 is about what I remember 55 years later… Never did need it to that accuracy…