how well does ilx *really* know pi?

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let's start with 3.14 -- you can improve this figure an unlimited number of times, but never consecutively. And this is all head knowledge, no cheating (e.g. consulting google, ned raggett recordings).

― Aaron A, Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'm out by default.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

3.141

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, one digit per turn please.

― Aaron A, Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I think

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

EVERYBODY CHEER ALONG

SINE! SINE! COSINE! SINE!
3.14159!!!!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

3.1415926535897 errr... either 5 or 9 is next?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

i felt so sad for kids at school that proudly recited pi to xx places, but that cheer fucking rocks

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

the next one is a 9, and then I know one more place after that and it goes fuzzy

― Aaron A, Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Well I arrived at this thread 8 digits too late...

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

our cheer (for football) is "3.14159, come on williams, hold that line!" nerds, nerds everywhere!

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Kate Bush to thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Williams? WELCOME BACK TO CIVILIZATION.

At least you guys had a halfway decent deli and record store.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

civilization? where?

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

This thread bores.

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

We could start on the period table, next...

1) Hydrogen!

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

you can't really do this one digit at a time because of rounding

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

2) Helium.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

3) Lithium... come on, geeks! Prove your big swinging geekhood!

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, NO ROUNDING.

screw it, this thread is now about pies.
http://www.marthastewart.com/images/learn/recipe/pie.jpg

― Aaron A, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

4) Beryllium (I'm sure that's spelled wrong because I can't spell, not strange UK/US differences.)

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

5) Boron

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

6) Carbon

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

you've missed Deuterium

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

8) Moron

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Deuterium isn't in the periodic table.

After Carbon comes Nitrogen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

No, Nitrogen and Oxygen are next.

x-post Sodium, Magnesium...

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

You missed one - Fluorine goes between Oxygen and Sodium

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

(but I'm stuck after Magnesium. Is it Aluminium, or is that further down?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Damn halogens... and after Fluorine comes Neon, I think, as well! I used to know this a lot better...

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Bah, I forgot Neon too.

I can do the halogens going downwards: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Astatine. I can't remember what order the noble gases are in, though.

Alkali (Group I) metals: (Hydrogen), Lithium, Sodium, Potassium (I think), Caesium, Francium. Hydrogen can be a metal under some conditions, you know.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Alkali (Group I) metals: (Hydrogen), Lithium, Sodium, Potassium (I think), Caesium, Francium

Rubidium as well - I can't remember where tho

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that in Group II?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I own a t-shirt with pi on it...

http://store1.yimg.com/I/computergear_1884_3936804

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Tom Lehrer to thread!

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

Isn't that interesting? (Laughter.)
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

``There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discavared.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

That is the coolest thing I've ever seen! x-post

(That's why I learned them in order, because that song is very much out of order, in order to force rhyhmes.)

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Actually that is how Chemistry and Physics teachers in my HS made friends with their art, drama and literature nerds. To the point of 'come in at lunch with the song memorised and I'll give you extra credit'.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

When I was 10 or so, we used to have the Time-Life "Science Library" series from the late 1960s. One book was called "Matter" and listed all the elements in it along with trvia, pictures, etc. I made it a point to memorize all of them.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43adcCoeFR8&search=hard%20n%20phirm

Chris Hardwick will tell you about pi, bitches!

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

It's a button, on a calculator.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841

I used to know a couple more digits, the idea was to get to 100, but I discovered women about half-way through.

― a youth misspent... (ockle boc), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I own a t-shirt with pi on it...

Did you get Ned to autograph it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, equator lounge, could you YSI that song? It sounds awesome!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Did you get Ned to autograph it?

No. I did find it in a Las Vegas thrift store for $1 though!

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

can ned sue us for copyright infringement?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Dude that Hard N Firm video had me fooled! I really thought it was one of those PBS shows from the 80s until the rapping started.

― naus (Robert T), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Is that Pi tshirt from the movie? It looks cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

can ned sue us for copyright infringement?

Pay up or else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Get a brain, borans.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 24 February 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pithemovie.com/314.gif

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 24 February 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://i44.tinypic.com/24ctqfc.jpg

― aztec gamera (zappi), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

3.141592

― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

i used to sing the periodic table in my head to the tune of "We Didn't Start The Fire."

I've never told anyone this

― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

3.14159265358979323846264338327950

Memorized that when I was 14, still have it today.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)

The Hard'n'Phirm song/video is awesome, mostly because of the *amazing* Cardiacsy chord-change that makes me feel a bit gooey

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

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