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> 355/113 Just memorize those six digits to get you four digits beyond the three that everybody knows.
by hanoz 6y ago
> 355/113
Just memorize those six digits to get you four digits beyond the three that everybody knows.
- fsckboy 6y agoi just memorized it as / 1 1 3 3 5 5 / where you start with the denominator and circle back.
- cgriswald 6y agoSo you've got to remember three digits, the fact they are doubled, the place to start, and the place circle back (or deduce any of those). Or you can remember 1592 as the year Trinity College in Dublin was founded. You didn't know that? You probably won't forget now.
- function_seven 6y agoHa. I don't think I'll remember '1592' directly. Easier to remember the offset of '+100' and combine it with my existing knowledge of who sailed the ocean blue.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThink of it the way we wrote division in grade school, like: ___ 113|355
- hnracer 6y agoMemorize six digits to get seven back?
- mdiesel 6y agoI've got Pi memorised more precisely than 355/113 as well for no good reason, and for engineering applications it doesn't serve any purpose. But the fraction is weirdly close and that's interesting for other (more academic) reasons, such as explaining why plotting primes in polar coordinates looks like a pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ