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This reminds me I've been curious to know what Hackernews people walk around with. I memorized 18 digits of Pi in highschool that I still remember and sometimes
by vasco 2y ago
This reminds me I've been curious to know what Hackernews people walk around with. I memorized 18 digits of Pi in highschool that I still remember and sometimes use as a bad joke here and there. But curious how many digits people here walk around remembering, specially if you aren't into competitively doing it (which I found out later is a thing).
- heinrich5991 2y ago18 including the leading 3.
- contravariant 2y agoI remember up to around 3.14159265, which is roughly what most cheap calculators will show you.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y agoLikewise. I just memorized what my 10 digit calculator showed me in high school.
- rossant 2y agoI memorized 20 digits when I was 11 or 12. I still remember them.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoThere is a streamer who memorised 1000 digits of pi, on stream, from scratch, in 11 hours. She used the mind palace method. Here's the whole vod, if curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZqTIXCrC3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZqTIXCrC3g
- wruza 2y agoSurprised it’s not Matt, although he’d probably misremember one digit anyway.
- goodcanadian 2y agoI was up to 40 or 50 at one point (around age 18), but I don't think I can get past 20, now.
- mkl 2y ago100 + a few now (since age ~15). I briefly knew 400, but didn't put in the practice to keep it (some sections of those later 100s are still there, but I can't access them as I'm missing some digits in between). It takes about 40min. to get 100 new digits into my head (just straight repetition, paying attention to the sounds and patterns in rhythmic groups). Keeping them long-term requires a lot of time spent on spaced repetition. I run through the first 100 digits just a few times a year now, and it's all still easily there.
- randunel 2y agoI memorised the sqrt of 2 in highschool to impress the teacher. The first 32 digits eventually became part of my passwords, but significantly reduced nowadays because I kept running into too many length restricted invalidations.
- generic92034 2y agoSo, how about memorizing the last yet known 100 digits of Pi? Of course you would have to learn a new sequence from time to time. :)
- ryandvm 2y agoI just remember the integer part.
- brianjlogan 2y agoI memorized and forgot 50 digits of Pi after doing some memory training game. Was a cool bar trick but ultimately lost my memory palace discipline. I might be able to pull out some percentage of accuracy if I focused but it feels fairly pointless.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI memorized 61 or a bit more digits probably 15 years ago. 61 digits stuck and I have them yet today. My younger brother was competing with me. He knows ~160 digits. No special memory tricks - just repeatedly reading/reciting until they stuck.
- AlexDragusin 2y ago3.14 gets me from here to there, it's just transportation, good enough for me :)