tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post788332063503476381..comments2024-03-29T09:53:45.879-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Geek alert #1: Pi in the skyPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-592429072357254282008-03-15T06:48:00.000-05:002008-03-15T06:48:00.000-05:00Kate Bush did a musical rendering of Pi on her las...Kate Bush did a musical rendering of Pi on her last cd, Aerial. It was kind of pretty. However, I think in the editing of the music, a few numbers were left out. Still, it's a nice idea.phlegmfatalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64680108061067454392008-03-15T06:47:00.000-05:002008-03-15T06:47:00.000-05:00Engineer's Cheere to the xe to the xe to the x, dx...Engineer's Cheer<BR/><BR/>e to the x<BR/>e to the x<BR/>e to the x, dx<BR/>cosine, secant, tangent, sine<BR/>3.14159Peripatetic Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508035944158746797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-79461488021400954882008-03-14T23:47:00.000-05:002008-03-14T23:47:00.000-05:00I'm one of those nerd type folks that like to memo...I'm one of those nerd type folks that like to memorize the number. On my 18th birthday (April 12, 1998) I stuck the last bit into my head for a total of 100 digits.<BR/><BR/>10 years later I can still do the first fifty from memory, even on a bad day.<BR/>3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510<BR/><BR/>After that I get sketchy. The trick, for me, has always been to find patterns that add up to common numbers.<BR/><BR/>1*4+1*5 = 9.<BR/><BR/>2*6 = 12 and 5+3+5 = 13.<BR/><BR/>89793.. well that's just easy.<BR/><BR/>2+3+8 = 11 and 4+6 = 10.<BR/><BR/>I've always focused around patterns that surround the number 10. It seems to have worked. You find a pattern that makes sense and you relate the numbers to that pattern until you can recall it without any thought. Once you've got that 5-10 digit block down you move onto the next one.<BR/><BR/>I'm a number nerd. I admit it.<BR/><BR/>I remember a problem presented in a biology class one day. At hour 0 there was 1 cell. Every hour after that they doubled. How many were there at hour 24?<BR/><BR/>The answer was 2^24th power. When I blurted out 16,777,216 before half the students even had their calculators out I got some odd looks.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'm a nerd.Justin Buisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17562279125607977323noreply@blogger.com