How many digits of π do you know?
I’m a dick!
…I was under the impression that “3.14159265” was the amount you couldn’t help but learn just by living in a culture where the concept of pi is this well-known. Certainly while I remember learning “358” and a little later “9793238” (circa age ten or eleven; I was reading Muse magazine and they had a bit on pi, and I was like “oh hey, more pi digits! that ‘979323’ is a nice pattern, I bet it would be easy to memorise. think I’ll throw in one more while I’m at it”), I don’t remembering learning the first…do you count from before or after the decimal point? Anyway, I don’t remember learning the part in my first sentence because I was so young.
(I suppose it’s not that surprising, really. I frequently have trouble telling the difference between common knowledge and stuff I happened to pick up on the way.)
Most people stop at 3.14. I used 31415926 as the pin for my old phone (I can say this now because it’s not the pin for my current phone and is not a current pin or password for anything). it seemed reasonably secure because most people just picked four digit pins and a random pickpocket probably wouldn’t guess that I had those digits memorised.
and the 535 8 979 323 is a neat pattern too (though the 8 in the middle kinda ruins it)
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