{"id":1919,"date":"2006-03-16T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/learning_pi\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:52:20","slug":"learning_pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/learning_pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why<\/a>?<\/p>\n

A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi \u2014 the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal \u2014 likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
\nGaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.
\n. . .
\nGaurav began memorizing Pi while a student in Gooding’s class. Gooding holds the competition every year, and said she expected students to learn about 40 digits. Gaurav recited nearly 2,990 the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whew, close call–but the North American Pi record survives for another day.
\nIf there’s a practical application we need to instill in the youth of America, it’s a full knowledge of pi. Just the other day, I was cycling through a remote area of eastern Roane County and my mind happened upon a geometric problem. I had the radius of a circle and needed to calculate the circumference. My brain went into meltdown mode, and for the life of me I couldn’t come up with the seventh and eighth digits of pi. I came to a house and stopped to ask if the residents knew, but no one was home. So there I stood like an idiot, banging my head against a tree trying to remember it was 3.1415926<\/a>. Duh.
\nParents, don’t let this nightmare happen to your kids. Make sure they memorize at least 40 digits of pi. If you really love them, I’d shoot for 100, just to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why? A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi \u2014 the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal \u2014 likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world. Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}