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1. reenorap · 1790082116 · focus · HN ↗

   There’s a song on YouTube that my kid and a bunch of his classmates used to memorize the first 100 digits of pi. When they were 6 the entire class memorized the periodic table similarly using a YouTube song as well.

   Funny thing is that another kid memorized pi to over 500 digits just from pure memorization.

   1. intrasight · 1790086731 · focus · HN ↗

      I assume my daughter used that song as well. I remember us sitting at the dining room table and her peeling off 100 digits of pi. I explained to her that that would provide an accuracy such that a circle the size of the observable universe would be accurate to within a Planck length.

      Fun memory from 16 years ago. Next month she'll be obtaining her PhD in physics.

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