OT. Just in case you wanted to know...

[shawn_a]

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Someone has issues.

shawn

[dlsbobby]

[killerkowalczyk]

Shawn, have you ever seen the move PI? Go rent it, its a great movie about a mathmatician that goes crazy.

> Someone has issues.

> shawn

[irishbreed]

[natman]

[rudyjakubin]

Makes me wonder if the decade system was the correct mathematical one chosen by our ancesters.
Maybe it was because we had ten digits on our hands and feet???
For sure the Julian calendar isn't correct!!!

[Pete Schumacher ®]

> Makes me wonder if the decade system was the
> correct mathematical one chosen by our
> ancesters.
> Maybe it was because we had ten digits on
> our hands and feet???
> For sure the Julian calendar isn't
> correct!!!

The calendar should be 12 months of 28 days and one with 29. Sure would follow the moon cycle a lot closer (moonth). But then, we'd have a prime number of months and couldn't divide the year up into thirds, halves, quarters.

Pi is a natural ratio and doesn't fit with whole numbers. Same with the natural logarithm.

A guy I went to high school with had it memorized to over 500 digits by the time he graduated.

Smart guy . . . really nuts.

[mikebw]

What a great website. I should print it out while I'm still at work.

> A guy I went to high school with had it
> memorized to over 500 digits by the time he
> graduated.

> Smart guy . . . really nuts.

Nuts that he was smart, or he was really nuts?

[johncraig]

> Shawn, have you ever seen the move PI? Go
> rent it, its a great movie about a
> mathmatician that goes crazy.

AWESOME MOVIE! I have it in DivX format. Ask nicely )

[dlr]

> A guy I went to high school with had it
> memorized to over 500 digits by the time he
> graduated.

Some years ago there was a TV interview of a guy in India who at the time (he continualy improved) have memorized pi to beyond 30,000 digits. He seemed a bit bothered by the fact that for some reason he couldn't get beyond the point he was at, but with time he would. He was just factual, not bragging, in his demeanor.

A group of doctors was studying him (seriously) to see if the could determine what gave him such ability.

When the interviewer was leaving he told the guy his phone number, then said he'd write it down. The guy responded "No need. I'll never forget it".

I'm sure he was not bragging then, either.

dlr

[pjay]

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> Someone has issues.

> shawn
nt

[damkor]

[damkor]

...would fit on, like, a page and a half. Who knew?