Pi?

Originally posted by observantU
In that case the digits in pi can be used to generate random numbers. But why should it be so remarkably evenly distributed?

because if you look at geomitry from an impartial prespective, then the value of pi is abitrary, even random. the chances of it being anything we can name are infinity to one.

Off the top of my head: 3.141592653589793238462
which seems to be 21 decimal places.

I'm not proud of this, and I'm sure it serves no useful purpose to me.

Sometimes I catch myself counting backwards in German.

i know a guy that memorised pi to 30 decimal places becuase, when he was younger, he saw a Japanese TV show where contestants won £1000 (or whatever the japanese equivalent is) for reciting Pi to 30 decimal places.

so he memorised it

just in case...

Can't get much further than 3.14159265358 but I'm not sure about the last few.

How about mnemonics for pi or e?

e=2+1/(2!)+1/(3!)+1/(4!)+1/(5!)+...

Originally posted by genius
e=2+1/(2!)+1/(3!)+1/(4!)+1/(5!)+...

e = 2.7 1828 1828 45 90 45 235382 7550....
the first 15 digits are easy to remember..