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As most of you were completely unaware, yesterday was Pi Day.<\/p>\nAs most of you were completely unaware, yesterday was Pi Day.<\/p>\n
If the reference is confusing to you, yesterday was March 14. This date can be written 3\/14, and 314 are the first three digits of the infinitely-long number pi.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I made a reference to Pi Day at the beginning of my message last night and I asked offhandedly if anyone in the audience had pi memorized out to any significant length \u2014 more than 10 digits.<\/p>\n
At first I didn\u2019t see any hands, but then I noticed that everyone was pointing at someone just out of my field of vision. I turned and John Sillcox (pictured here) had his hand raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn, how many digits do you have pi memorized out to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c100.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor real? You know the first 100 digits of pi?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was pretty floored. I had thought MAYBE someone would know the first 10 or 25 digits.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know that I have no choice but to call you up here and have you recite them.\u201d<\/p>\n
After some cajoling he agreed and began reciting the numbers. One of the graphics I had for pi day happened to display the first several hundred numbers and so we projected the graphic behind him while he rattled them off. His recall was perfect.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the bit that I found most interesting about the entire experience: the response of the audience. This is the sort of geeky thing that normally only I would find cool. But at Stanford, such displays get a different response. Our Chi Alpha group went wild. One of our rugby players got up and began bowing to John, crying \u201cWe\u2019re not worthy!\u201d<\/p>\n
So yeah. That\u2019s what Pi Day at Chi Alpha is like. At least at Stanford.<\/p>\n
For the record, my texts were Exodus 3:14 and Philippians 3:14. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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