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maryellencarter:

calware:

how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?

pi-memorisation-poll

“anyway I am surprised that 5 is such a popular answer, I can understand 2, but why 5, it’s so lopsided” (via @brin-bellway )

I answered 5! In my case, it’s because I once saw a nerdy math cheer that included those digits – something along the lines of “local math team, we’re so fine, 3.14159” – and it stuck.

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calware:

how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?

pi-memorisation-poll

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#…this reminds me of that post going around with the #”which field do you think normal people know one or two feldspars in (and quartz of course)” #me: ”yeah I know 18 is an unusually large number of pi digits to have memorised‚ most people only know 8” #(I had a specific copy of that post I was going to show you alongside this) #(but guess what! Tumblr just up and banned them last night for no apparent reason!) #(my pile of tabs-to-consider-reblogging is *actively linkrotting*‚ so I guess I’d better get a move on with sorting through them) #((particularly in case Tumblr decides to finish the job they did on me)) #(I still have several lizardywizard posts in my queue‚ and Tumblr claims those reblogs will go ahead as scheduled) #(we’ll see) #((with careful use of the right-click ”bookmark tab” button I was able to save all but one of the URLs)) #((so if they manage to get their account back I might still be able to retrieve those)) #anyway‚ I am particularly surprised that 5 is such a popular answer #I can understand 2 #but why *5* #it’s so lopsided #math #surveys #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #amnesia cw
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qwantzfeed:

the thing with pokemon is they all stop at 3 dimensions.  there’s no 10-dimensional geodudes.  i know nothing of pokemon but i feel like i would’ve heard about it if there were hypergeodudes.  i have explicitly arranged my life such that if this were the case someone probably would’ve told me

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #fun with loopholes #Dinosaur Comics #comics #(3.141592653589793238) #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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slepaulica:

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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.)

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#reply via reblog #I gather that at no point pre-marriage did Dad actually say to Mom #’let’s get together and raise a family of geeklets’ #but after the fact he’s described it like that multiple times #the plan pretty much worked out

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