Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: PI Message-ID: <1990Dec17.150257.3890@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 17 Dec 90 15:02:57 GMT References: <1942@beguine.UUCP> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 24 J Greely writes: > you might as well just learn 3.141593. This may be silly, but I learned to memorise the first few digits of PI in high school by the nice pattern they made on the keyboard of my SR-10 calculator: 7 8 9 / 4 5 6 | / / 1 2 3 0 . You have to remember the "3." youself, but after that, it's up from the 1, then diagonal from the 1, then diagonal from the 2. On the other hand, e doesn't make such a nice pattern (that I noticed), so as far as I remember, e is just 2.something. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"