Comments | matt1993: Writer's Block: National Pi Day

matt1993

Writer's Block: National Pi Day

Mar 14, 2012 19:06

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glowing_dragon March 15 2012, 04:30:53 UTC

You're doing better than I ever could. :D

matt1993 March 15 2012, 04:41:44 UTC

Yeah, but I'm disappointed that even though I have grapheme→color synesthesia I still only know 21.614 digits of pi. :(

glowing_dragon March 15 2012, 04:47:00 UTC

Is that directly connected to math ability, though? Just curious. :)

matt1993 March 15 2012, 07:01:07 UTC

Well, from what I've seen, it's supposed to improve it, but... mine doesn't as much as I'd hoped. I'm good at math, yes, but not extraordinarily fast at it. Or good at memorization. Both of which are supposed to be characteristics of synesthetes. :(

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adawnrae March 15 2012, 20:41:10 UTC

Have you made a concerted effort to memorize Pi to as many decimal places as possible? Because if not, you are holding yourself to an impossibly high standard. Most people have considerable difficulty memorizing strings of numbers greater than sixteen (four groups of four), so you are already ahead of that.

And your awesome math geekery here is so much more sexy impressive than just being able to memorize a string of random digits. :D

matt1993 March 15 2012, 23:44:07 UTC

I have trouble memorizing more digits of pi than I already know if I try to memorize a lot at a time. Every time I try (which is only occasionally - about once or twice every year or two), I pick up a few more digits, but not many. Over the years I've gotten from 3.14 to 3.1415926 to 3.14159265 to 3.14159265358 to 3.141592653589 to 3.14159265358979323 to where I got up to in this entry. (And now that I've recently looked at the digits after the last one I memorized for the first time in a while, I've gotten up to 3.1415926535897932384626433832, so now I'm up to 28 digits! Yay!!! This is actually the most new digits I've memorized at a time...)

pathvain_aelien March 18 2012, 15:03:15 UTC

I only know 3.14... :)