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Life Hack (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I myself once learned 380 digits of π, when I was a crazy high-school kid. My never-attained ambition was to reach the spot, 762 digits out in the decimal expansion, where it goes "999999", so that I could recite it out loud, come to those six 9s, and then impishly say, "and so on!"

—Douglas Hofstadter

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be an amazing party trick.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually come to think of it, even more amazing in the age of smart phones, when it's possible to easily verify to numbers you're reciting.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well said.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're welcome.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Haha.