Memorizing pi to the 8,784th digit: bad for you?

[Patty_O_Furniture]

Not bad for you perhaps, but not terribly good for your resume.

Interviewer: What are your hobbies or accomplishments?

15 year-old kid: I’ve memorized Pi to 8,784 digits.

Interviewer: Uh, don’t call us - we’ll call you.

[MessyPaint]

@Wendell Wagner

A page with 100 characters per line and 75 lines per page is pretty crowded. 800 pages could then have at most 6,000,000 characters. You’d need nearly 400 such books to hold that many digits.

Interesting. This is what I read from a 1987 Guinness Book.

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[Wendell_Wagner]

MessyPaint writes:

> This is what I read from a 1987 Guinness Book.

I don’t know what the Guinness Book of Records said, but this illustrates why you should check any such claim with some simple arithmetic if you’re going to memorize it for the next 19 years.

[Thudlow_Boink]

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.

[MessyPaint]

@Wendell Wagner

I don’t know what the Guinness Book of Records said, but this illustrates why you should check any such claim with some simple arithmetic if you’re going to memorize it for the next 19 years.

Okay.