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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: PI
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Date: 19 Dec 90 03:55:20 GMT
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In article <2486.276dfd25@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
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<How I wish I could recapture pi....
<Eureka! cried the great inventor.
<Christmas pudding, Christmas pie
<Is at the problem's very center.
<
<[Hint: number of letters in each word mean something.  
<]

The `at' doesn't belong.  So much for that mnemonic.  Oh, well, there are
many more where that came from.  See Bergmann's book.  I know a few that
even he doesn't list (though I don't use them myself).

The longest one I've seen is in Chinese.  It's a poem (if you can call it that)
in which each character sounds like the corresponding digit in the decimal
expansion.  (The decimal point is included.)  Unfortunately, I don't remember
where I saw this.  Could someone send me a reference?  (A pointer to a Chinese
book is OK; I read Chinese.)

					--Scott

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