Ok, I don't know if this belongs here, but it's the best place I could find for it:

Big slice of pi is a record effort

SOME people find remembering their own phone numbers difficult. But Christ Lyons recited the first 4400 digits of pi from memory without a single error yesterday at Melbourne's Mind Sports Australia Festival, more than doubling the Australian memory record of 2189 digits.

Mr Lyons, 36, said he spent just a week trying to remember as much of the infinite pi figure as possible and 2 1/2 hours to recite the 4400 numbers.

The momry coach said he could have done much more but wanted to challenge other would-be memory record breakers.

"If you can remember 1000 numbers, you can remember 10,000," he said

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Source - Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 10th January, 2006.

That's crazy. I'm ok with numbers, but 4400? Just goes to show what the human mind can be capable of.

Regards, PA

That's impressive.

Impressive but..... boring. :: yawns ::

I read that and it just made me yawn, haha.


Does the guy who did that have Autism of some kind?

3.14 is as far as I can go.

^You'll be beating that world record in no time!

3.1415...

HA! I am well on my way on the record. Stand back pi boy, your record will be short lived, only 3997 more digits to commit to memory...

^3.14159

It says he only spent a week learning it, I suppose if I spent 20 years I might stand a chance of at least matching that record.

Ahhh Ludoph's great trancendental constant, better known as pi. Such a mystery.

Pi speaks a language, but what is it trying to tell us.

ummm...why would they want to memorize it?...

I was thinking the same - that's why I haven't commented yet. I mean it's a great feat to remember so many decimal places but what practical use does it have except for a travelling road show! I won't expect scientists to hire this guy just to tell them what the decimal places are, wait around for 2 hours until he recites them and then try to calculate something using them, hmmmm.

...the reason for existence...

I was wondering if anyone has ever tryed to decode pi? I know people have tried to find a pattern, but there isn't any pattern, or at least it hasn't been found yet. Numbers relate to letters, so I wonder if anyone has ever used arithmomancy to see if some kind of pattern could exist in pi. hmmm?

I may just do a little experimenting myself.

There may well be an encoded message as a 'language' but the dilemma then is which language do you choose? However there is only one language that is truly universal IMO, geometry. And pi is part of that language and it does give you answers for existence - it is really simple and not difficult to deduce but we are all disillusioned by the apparent complexity of reality and hence find it really difficult to see the answer.

One theory sprung to my mind just yesterday after starring at the pi symbol. The stonehenge was not a calendar (of sorts) for the people of that time but a message (just like SOME crop circles are in our time) about the nature of the universe and it (stonehenge) was constructed as a 'worship' symbol for those people not really knowing or understanding the message they received. Think about it, the stonehenge is a circle of pi symbols!

I don't think Stonehenge was a place of "worship". I think it's an anciet astrological phenomena. The ancient's used it to study astronomy and astrology. I don't recall all the details, but I did some reading on it about 8 years ago now.
'twas most informative.

Regards, PA

Perhaps PA. I was searching for the right word at the time but I think a 'monument' of sorts may be more appropriate and yes I've read about the astrological connections too that's why what I mentioned is a theory on-the-fly so-to-speak.

Think about this for a minute. Say someone in those times receives a 'vision' of sorts (perhaps in a dream) that features the symbol pi and a circle. Someones first instincts would be to draw a circle in the dirt and erect stones that look like (in the vision) the symbol pi and voila - the stonehenge is born. The astrological connection is just as much speculation as my 'vision' speculation since no one can say for certain why it is as it is. There is no documentation or anyone who has been there.

Cheers

Intense...I don't know that I've ever even seen pi past about a thousand....

Well now you have This is a link to a most strange website. Who took the time to do this, I have no idea *shrugs shoulders*

^^ That's insane, it actually took my computer more than 1 second to load a page with only one picture on it! I'm going to spam that one someone as a cruel and inhuman joke...