Pi Memorization

[agor95]

When you use a mnemonic that is a train of thought, like bardic stories, then the delay or interuption to the recital can prevent recall.

[Furcurequs]

I didn't really use any sort of mnemonic in my memorization, but it seems my recall of the digits does rely a bit on the sound and flow of the numbers as I recite them.

When I have to slow down to type the digits, it throws me off some, and I often have to repeat sections.

It's almost like the sequence of numbers are stored as a long song rather than as a story or imagery, I guess.

[Zhyyra]

Thumbs up. Well done Dwayne! I'm impressed.

Being an oft absent minded person and an oft "sing-to-myself" person, I once did a little research on how to memorize whole songs at a time because I often got (still get) stuck at places and often could not recall all the lyrics fluently.
The most common advise from others was to use mnemonics in a story and imagery manner.
It did help a bit and I can sometimes get through whole songs now without fault. So, by adding things to remember, you can remember things.
So, for me to do what you have just done (theoretically), I would need have three trains of running simultaneously, the image, the song and the numbers.

Maybe I should rather forget it :-)

[agor95]

Furcurequs

I appreciate a rhythm sound train method as that is the way we were taught the Alphabet; a long time ago.

Also I memorization the train of notes on a percussion instrument like a musical paths. However I was asked to slow down the rate and the recall was less accurate.

When travelling by car a person can remember the junction's exits to take and not the long journey taken between the junctions.

All these path based train methods were put forward 2,000 year plus ago and are referred to a Loci [path] method.

[agor95]

Here is another way to remember PI to 6 decimal places

How I wish I could calculate pi

The number of letters in each world is the digit, starting with 3. then .141592

To 31 decimal places

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force, and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
Or locate they who can cogitate
And so finally terminate. Finis

[eccentrically1]

31.4 trillion digits! That’s accurate...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this- ... o_homepage

[Furcurequs]

I bet he cheated and used a computer!

I can't see the story from my current (old) browser. I may have to reboot into another version of Linux to read that.

[eccentrically1]

It says (for a $40 fee) you can download the dataset. It took 100’s of terabytes to calculate. I guess someone will want to, but that’s a lot of numbers. What would anybody use it for?

[Art]

Hi Dwayne ,

A book to maybe keep you awake at night from Graham Hancocks site -

G. Gene Ladner - The Coincidence Collector

Interesing Anomalies in The Digits of Pi

https://grahamhancock.com/ladnergg1/