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From: Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:38:53 +0100
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On 25/06/2025 03:11, Carl G. wrote:
> On 6/24/2025 12:32 AM, David Entwistle wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:15:32 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
>>
>>>            The name honors physicist Richard Feynman, who is said to have
>>> joked about memorizing pi up to that point and then mischievously
>>> claiming pi is rational by reciting the six nines and saying "and so
>>> on". However, there is no clear record of Feynman actually making this
>>> remark in a lecture, and the story has become part of mathematical
>>> folklore.
>>
>> Chat GPT kindly wrote a short poem to help me remember the first ten
>> digits of pi.
>>
>> Counting All Digits,
>> Aiming Every Intention,
>> Boldly Facing Every Dream.
>>
>> Can anyone do better?
>>
> I'm impressed that the ChatGPI understood what you wanted (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.).
> 
> In 1998 I posted the following to the rec.puzzles newsgroup.  It used the letters in each word for 
> digits of pi:
> 
> =====
> Hey!  I made a short paragraph to assist those who often memorize something through mnemonics. Try 
> to add comments.  When making it longer, make all the comments fit my pattern.
> 
> 3.14159265358979323846264338327941971693993751...

Hehe, there's a theory that Pi is any number starting 3.1415926...

Mike.