Lam's gay?

This is the honest truth, I swear. In high school, I was friend with this girl that remembered the first 100 digits of pi. In fact, she could say it from the beginning and from the end. It was amazing, I thought.She got really mad when she found out that some kid in California won like 10 grand for being able to say it on tv.

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The Laminator

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At my wife's Mormon family talent night (yes, just like the Southpark episode, ugh) my father-in-law did a 'poetry reading' that consisted of reciting pi to 100 digits.BTW Lam, as this topic is dedicated to you, I want to mention that I find your posts to be informative and a joy to read.

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"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." Aaron Levenstein

The one I remember for pi is:How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.I think the big reason I wound up memorizing e instead of pi was that pi is on the calculator and the square root of 2 is easily calculated, but e is a bit more bizarre (and requires a hyperbolic calculator to calculate).And yet, it one of the five most important numbers in mathematics. I've always found De Moivre's identity to be one of the most beautiful things in the world:e^{pi i} + 1 = 0

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Rrhain
WWJD? JWRTFM!

Thank you for the compliment. How's life in the capitol of a state that's grossly underpopulated?

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Oh man, I have Quantum Theory of Matter A next semester. It's supposed to be the killer for undergrad physics majors ):. Maybe the difficulty will be balanced by the interesting subject matter, though.As for the memorizing Pi thing, I had a friend who did that in middle school. I forget how many digits he memorized it to, but it was a LOT. He had this entire print-out of it, and he just sat around all day staring at it. He always was an odd one...

Juneau is a HUGE city, bigger than Angoon and Ulukunuk combined. If you include the 'burbs (Thane, Douglas, Out-The-Road) we have almost 32,000 people in our fair capitol. Really though it is very very nice to be in a state with this low of a population (in most ways). The way it gets to be a pain is that with a total pop of 500,000 or so elections in this state can go funny. For example, Fairbanks and Anchorage have huge military bases and people stationed there are encouraged to register to vote (so they can collect state dividend checks). Since the military tends to vote towards conservative it is popular opinion that they drown out the votes of us "communist left wing liberal porno-in-the-library loving tree huggers" (as we were recently described in a letter to the editor of our newspaper, I am taking it as a symbol of pride).

I recall a story about someone of the 19th century who was amused by the foolish waste of time that someone exhibited by memorizing 100's of digits of PI. This guy had himself memorized 1,000 but didn't think it was foolish because it took him no time at all.It seems there are people who can simply read long strings of numbers once and "get them"!

They are "Idiot Sevantes".

No, the best of them are not retarded in any way. Rather the contrary.The Idiot Savants make the news because of the contrast between their one or two abilities and the rest of their cognitive functions.

The "classic" defintion of "idiot savant" is just that.

Hahahaha. I just noticed this post. I don't see anything with communism, being a left wing liberal, pornography in the library, and being a tree hugger.

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The Laminator
For goodness's sake, please vote Democrat this November!

"We present a mnemonic to memorize a constant so exciting that Euler exclaimed: '!' when first it was found, yes, loudly '!'. My students perhaps will compute e, use power or Taylor series, an easy summation formula, obvious, clear, elegant!"!=0