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As most of you were com\u00adplete\u00adly unaware, yes\u00adter\u00adday was Pi Day.<\/p>\nAs most of you were com\u00adplete\u00adly unaware, yes\u00adter\u00adday was Pi Day.<\/p>\n
If the ref\u00ader\u00adence is con\u00adfus\u00ading to you, yes\u00adter\u00adday was March 14. This date can be writ\u00adten 3\/14, and 314 are the first three dig\u00adits of the infi\u00adnite\u00adly-long num\u00adber pi.<\/p>\n
Any\u00adway, I made a ref\u00ader\u00adence to Pi Day at the begin\u00adning of my mes\u00adsage last night and I asked offhand\u00aded\u00adly if any\u00adone in the audi\u00adence had pi mem\u00ado\u00adrized out to any sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant length \u2014 more than 10 dig\u00adits.<\/p>\n
At first I did\u00adn\u2019t see any hands, but then I noticed that every\u00adone was point\u00ading at some\u00adone just out of my field of vision. I turned and John Sill\u00adcox (pic\u00adtured here) had his hand raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn, how many dig\u00adits do you have pi mem\u00ado\u00adrized out to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c100.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor real? You know the first 100 dig\u00adits of pi?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was pret\u00adty floored. I had thought MAYBE some\u00adone would know the first 10 or 25 dig\u00adits.<\/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 cajol\u00ading he agreed and began recit\u00ading the num\u00adbers. One of the graph\u00adics I had for pi day hap\u00adpened to dis\u00adplay the first sev\u00ader\u00adal hun\u00addred num\u00adbers and so we pro\u00adject\u00aded the graph\u00adic behind him while he rat\u00adtled them off. His recall was per\u00adfect.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the bit that I found most inter\u00adest\u00ading about the entire expe\u00adri\u00adence: the response of the audi\u00adence. This is the sort of geeky thing that nor\u00admal\u00adly only I would find cool. But at Stan\u00adford, such dis\u00adplays get a dif\u00adfer\u00adent response. Our Chi Alpha group went wild. One of our rug\u00adby play\u00aders got up and began bow\u00ading to John, cry\u00ading \u201cWe\u2019re not wor\u00adthy!\u201d<\/p>\n
So yeah. That\u2019s what Pi Day at Chi Alpha is like. At least at Stan\u00adford.<\/p>\n
For the record, my texts were Exo\u00addus 3:14 and Philip\u00adpi\u00adans 3:14. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As most of you were com\u00adplete\u00adly unaware, yes\u00adter\u00adday was Pi Day. If the ref\u00ader\u00adence is con\u00adfus\u00ading to you, yes\u00adter\u00adday was March 14. This date can be writ\u00adten 3\/14, and 314 are the first three dig\u00adits of the infi\u00adnite\u00ad\u00adly-long num\u00adber pi. Any\u00adway, I made a ref\u00ader\u00adence to Pi Day at the begin\u00adning of my mes\u00adsage last \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cPi Day at Chi Alpha\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}