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A Poem on Pi

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:09:58 GMT

Surfing around the net I found A Poem on Pi wrote by Wislawa Szymborska (Polish Nobel Laureate: 1996). It is absolutely a must to read!

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The Pi-search page

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:10:33 GMT

Search any number of digits inside the pi, this website let you query the first 200 milion digits of Pi. You can try searching your birthday or your telephone number but remember that for more than 8 digits the possibility to find a match are very little.

Pi - the movie

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:35:40 GMT

A movie about the Pi ?? Well, surfing in the official website of the movie is a quite chaotic and mistyc experience. Luckily on IMDB there are more detailed infos on this production which also own a very good rating (7.5/10).

American Pi

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:23:36 GMT

American Pi is a fun parody that mix American Pie and Pi in a 22 minutes movie. The synopsis is: “3.14 and looking to score! A parody in which a math genius trying to figure out the chaos theory proves to be an idiot when it comes to losing his virginity.”

Pi Club

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:34:10 GMT

Can you memorize more than 30 pi digits ?? I’m trying but at the moment my best is around 10, if you accomplish the 30-digits task you must join the pi Club . The page contains a board with all the members and the number of digits they remind. The best member has the impressive score of 25000 !! (maybe just a joke?)

Super Pi

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:25:24 GMT

Do you need a fast method to obtain the first n digits of pi? Well… you could try Three141 or you can go straight to the University of Tokio FTP and download the first 4,200,000,000 digits at once . Just remember to use the small program provided in order to ‘unpack’ the digits.

Rhind, the egyptians and Pi

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:05:08 GMT

In this wikipedia article is explained that the Rhind Papyrus is one of the best examples of Egyptian mathematics. Reading the article I found a simply method to calculate the area of a circle by approximation to a square. Using this method with a circle of 9 unit the pi value obtained is 3.16 .. a really good approximation !

Sailor Pi

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:38:24 GMT

Sailor Moon is the past, now it’s time for Sailor Pi alias Bizzie Lizzie, a girl who discovers her true identity and try to prove her power to the other Sailor Scout . The first (and last?) 26 chapters are avaiable! ps: don’t miss the amazing download section

Akira Haraguchi

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:13:27 GMT

This post is totally dedicated to my new shiny hero: Akira Haraguchi who had set the current world record in memorizing and reciting digits of Pi. Between October the 3rd and October the 4th he repetead the first 100,000 Pi digits in a 16 hours marathon with just a 5-minutes break every two hours for eating onigiri rice balls. I’ve also found a picture of Akira here

The Pi song

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:41:24 GMT

A song about the first n-th pi digits ? It seems incredible but I’ve found that song with a very nice pi art in the page ! The author has a nice website about the root of 2 too