15 minutes of fame the hard way

by rrusczyk, Jun 17, 2006, 3:21 PM

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Only 8000? That is sort of dissapointing

by PenguinIntegral, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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I'll never understand the urge of some people to know hundreds and thousands of digits of $\pi$ ...

by Valentin Vornicu, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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It's irrational.

by PenguinIntegral, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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It's no fun just memorizing digits of pi, but it is fun seeing how many you can memorize in a short period of time. One time I was waiting in line with a guy with digits of pi on the back of his shirt. I think I had around 20 or so additional digits by the time I was done waiting

. Now if only everyone I've waited behind had a shirt with digits of pi...

by probability1.01, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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What kind of kid sits around memorizing 8000 digits of pi?!?!
He should spend his time doing something more useful, like problem solving.

by tcs09, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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Sadly, things like this catch people's attention more than someone writing a perfect paper on the USAMO.

This also doesn't discourage that common stereotype that those who are good at math are human calculators...oh how I hate that one

by joml88, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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I agree. I once saw a website for a Human Calculator World Cup. I must say, I never saw the fruitfulness of extracting the square root of a six-digit number in your head.

by Boy Soprano II, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM

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Ahhh, not another annoying stereotype. People too often associate memorizing with math. No, that's science and history, I tell them, but then there's things like this and they say, "See, $\pi$ 's math!" If he has that kind of a memory, couldn't he use it for more useful things?

by SamE, Jun 17, 2006, 3:22 PM