I'd post it, but, well...my PC would take about 5 hours to copy and paste that...

Should I attempt to post it? I can risk having to restart my PC...

Patrick is right. Stuff like that would be far better as a zipped file, the million digits would then need far less than a million bytes. I can host the file somewhere.

BTW I couldn't imagine a better image than the one they have at the top!

I will, thanks!

I think the world record is about 42000 or something. But luckily I have a plan to try and remember this many...I call this the Pi Grouping Plan - Or PGP.

1. Start of with learning 3.14159
2. Then learn the 2653
3. Then 5897
4. Then 9323
5. Then, learn the big six-group number - 846264
6. 3 numbers - 338
7. 3279
8. 502884
9. 1971

...

And you continue in this pattern. I don't know why, but I think it seems like one of the easiest ways to learn it. It seems...somewhat comfortable?

But anyway, thanks Patrick and MathsIsFun - I'll zip the file into an archive or something, then send it to you.

Devanté wrote:

I will, thanks!

I think the world record is about 42000 or something. But luckily I have a plan to try and remember this many...I call this the Pi Grouping Plan - Or PGP.

1. Start of with learning 3.14159
2. Then learn the 2653
3. Then 5897
4. Then 9323
5. Then, learn the big six-group number - 846264
6. 3 numbers - 338
7. 3279
8. 502884
9. 1971

my old math teacher told me that he had a friend that learned about the first 1000 decimals a long time ago, and you could ask him which number has the position 675, and he thought for a while and then said the correct answer he said he used that method, dividing them in different groups of four or something like that

Kurre wrote:

Devanté wrote:

I will, thanks!

I think the world record is about 42000 or something. But luckily I have a plan to try and remember this many...I call this the Pi Grouping Plan - Or PGP.

1. Start of with learning 3.14159
2. Then learn the 2653
3. Then 5897
4. Then 9323
5. Then, learn the big six-group number - 846264
6. 3 numbers - 338
7. 3279
8. 502884
9. 1971

my old math teacher told me that he had a friend that learned about the first 1000 decimals a long time ago, and you could ask him which number has the position 675, and he thought for a while and then said the correct answer he said he used that method, dividing them in different groups of four or something like that

Yeah. That's how I do it. After a certain point, I start learning the digits in groups of 4, or 6...but 4 mainly.

BTW, thanks Patrick.

Well... seeing that there are 10 possible digits (0-9) and thus 10 notes/chords you would need to use, it'd be hard to create something remotely diatonic. Sure, you could maybe put in secondary dominants or something for the 3 extra notes... possibly even make them the tonic, supertonic, and mediant an octave higher, but with the way the digits go the music would be rather random and hard to memorize. Another negative aspect of using music is that once you get to a respectable amount of digits, it'll take several hours to recite them all, so you'd need to remember a pretty long piece. Maybe some guy who is a professial orchestral musician with an interest in mathematics could pull it off, who knows.

Ok, I was assuming pretty darn good recitations of pi, like this one:

"Gaurav on Monday recited 10,980 digits, breaking the North American and U.S. record of 10,625, which had stood for 27 years. During an after-school session, he recited about two numbers per second for one hour, 14 minutes and 28 seconds."

That's what made me say hours . I guess I was imagining the musical idea as being a significant aid such that someone could set a record with it.

Haha, there's a man who recited 83,431 digits. It took nearly 24 hours. Great stamina there.

It was set last summer apparently, so the sites with the 42,000 digit figure are just out of date i'm guessing.

I once had pi memorized to 500 digits, but now only 100 again.  Between 20 and 100 digits I divided it up in sets of 5 and said them over and over, so it is verbally memorized, and I never forget them, but it took many hours to get it down really fast.
So 26433 83279 50288 41971 ..... 34211 70679, then I went by double digits 82, and then I forget the rest right now.
I associated people and places with all the double digit combinations from 00 to 99, so I used that to go from 101 to 500, but
I forgot it after a year.

Now I'm working on from 501 to 600 places past decimal.
This time I'm using blocks arranged in 3x3 grids stacked upward.
Like for the number 8 I use a donut shape, basically a 3x3 grid filled with blocks with the middle missing.
After I get these hundred down, I'll go back and relearn 101 to 500 again with the person/places method
since it should come back to me.

I remember someone posted up a poem here a while ago, where each word's number of letters spelt out pi.

So, if you could memorise that poem, you could memorise the first 500-ish digits of pi. Of course, you'd need to find the poem first...

Edit: Got it.

Ooh yes, definitely. Edgar Allen Poe just wrote it as a piece of normal poetry, and then some other person came along later and altered it so that it became a huge mneumonic. Still very impressive though.